Bonn University Shakespeare Company
The Bonn University Shakespeare Company eV , ( BUSC ), is a free theater group that emerged from the Institute for English, American and Celtology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .
history
The BUSC was founded in November 1992 by the English studies students Thilo Veenema and Magnus Huber, after the theater group of the English seminar broke up. It is a non-commercial association within the meaning of Section 21 of the German Civil Code (BGB), which exclusively pursues charitable purposes. The seat of the association is the University of Bonn.
In 2006 the group had around 100 members, including around 50 active employees. The aim is to promote art and culture , especially the dissemination of the works of Shakespeare , his contemporaries or other English-speaking authors in Bonn and the surrounding area. Schools in the Cologne / Bonn area in particular should be given the opportunity to deal with Shakespeare's work and the English language through the teaching material, lectures and discussion groups provided. There are workshops and theater courses for schools. In addition, BUSC works with Shakespeare researchers Baumann from the University of Bonn and Russel Jackson from the University of Birmingham, who also acted as an advisor on Shakespeare films. In the program booklets, accompanying literature articles are published, some of which were written by professors from the University of Bonn.
The theater group usually puts on two productions each summer / winter. The specialty is that the pieces are performed in the original English language. The main venue is the “Brotfabrik” cultural center in Bonn-Beuel, where the pieces are usually played on 6 to 10 consecutive days, with an average of 7 performances per production. In addition to works by Shakespeare, dramas and comedies by Christopher Marlowe , John Ford , Oscar Wilde or TS Eliot are performed. With “Der kleine Horrorladen”, BUSC also brought a musical production onto the stage. An exception in the English-language performances is “Vell Jedöhns wääje nüß”, a Rhenish translation and adaptation of the Shakespeare play “Much Ado about Nothing”. For this production, the group received the Martin Lehnert Prize of the German Shakespeare Society . The group occasionally gives guest performances, for example at the Shakespeare Days in Cologne (1993), Bochum (1994), Weimar (1999) and Dinslaken (2001) and at the Shakespeare Congress in Gotha (1999). With the plays “Timon of Athens” (2004) and “Vell Jedöhns wääje nüß” (2003), the BUSC made a guest appearance in the reconstructed Globe Theater in Neuss . In Bonn, BUSC has also performed in the “House of the Springmaus”, on the Museum Mile and in Poppelsdorf Palace. In 2002, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the BUSC, a week-long Shakespeare festival with performances and lectures took place.
The rehearsals for the performances take place in student dormitories, lecture halls or schools. In the last two weeks before the performance, there will be rehearsals at the “ bread factory ” location. Workshops with actors take place at irregular intervals, for example in 2005 in Stratford-upon-Avon , Shakespeare's birthplace.
Productions
- Winter 1993: Richard II (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1994: Doctor Faustus (C. Marlowe)
- Fall 1994 / Summer 2011: The Taming of the Shrew (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1995 / Winter 2016: Julius Caesar (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1995 / Summer 2006 / Winter 2015: Macbeth (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 1995: Pericles, Prince of Tire (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1996: 'Tis Pity she's a Whore (J. Ford)
- Summer 1996: Few but roses (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 1996: Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
- Summer 1997 / Summer 2004 / Summer 2017: A Midsummer Night's Dream (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 1997 / Winter 2017: The Winter's Tale (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1998: The Importance of being Earnest (O. Wilde)
- Winter 1998: The Merchant of Venice (W. Shakespeare)
- Spring 1999: The Two Gentleman of Verona (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1999: The Merry Wives of Windsor (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 1999: The Tempest (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 1999 / Winter 2014: Titus Andronicus (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2000 / Summer 2014: Twelfth Night (W. Shakespeare)
- Autumn 2000: Vell Jedöhns wääje nüß (Original: Much Ado about nothing / Shakespeare)
- Winter 2000: Murder in the Cathedral (TS Eliot)
- Summer 2001: Cymbeline (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2001: Henry V. (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2002: The Little Horror Shop (A. Menken / H. Ashman)
- Summer 2002 / Winter 2007: Romeo and Juliet (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2002 / Summer 2018: Hamlet (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2003: Timon of Athens (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2003: The Changeling (T. Middleton / W. Rowley)
- Summer 2004: Our Country's Good ( Timberlakewertebaker )
- Winter 2004: The Country Wife (W. Wycherley)
- Summer 2005: Othello (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2005: An Ideal Husband (O. Wilde)
- Winter 2006: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (D. Wasserman / K. Kesey)
- Summer 2007: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (C. Hampton / C. De Laclos)
- Summer 2008: TroilusWAHN and CressidaTHEATER (W. Shakespeare / W. Schwab)
- Winter 2008: The Roman Actor (P. Massinger)
- Summer 2009: A Clockwork Orange (A. Burgess)
- Winter 2009: Antony and Cleopatra (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2010: Man of the Moment (A. Ayckbourn)
- Winter 2010: Richard III (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2011: The Taming of the Shrew (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2011: Henry VIII (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2012: Lady Windermere's Fan (O. Wilde)
- Winter 2012: Measure for Measure (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2013: The Crucible (A. Miller)
- Winter 2013: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (L. Carroll)
- Summer 2014: Twelfth Night (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2014: Titus Andronicus (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2015: The Count of Monte Cristo (A. Dumas)
- Winter 2015: Macbeth (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2016: The Master and Margarita (M. Bulgakov)
- Winter 2016: Julius Caesar (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2017: Double production All's Well That Ends Well & A Midsummer Night's Dream (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2017: The Winter's Tale (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2018: Hamlet (W. Shakespeare)
- Winter 2018: The Life and Death of King John (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2019: Salome (Oscar Wilde)
- Winter 2019: Double production Romeo and Juliet & Troilus and Cressida (W. Shakespeare)
- Summer 2020: The Two Noble Kinsmen (W. Shakespeare / J. Fletcher)