Bonn University Shakespeare Company

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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.

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