moa theater

mobile open air theater hannover e. V. ; (moa theater)
purpose	Theater performances with voluntary work
Chair:	Julian Tim Wilhelmi
Establishment date:	February 7, 2001
Number of members:	54
Seat :	Hanover
Website:	http://www.moatheater.de/

The moa theater ( mobile open air theater hannover e.V. ) is an amateur theater in Hanover that stages a theater production as an open-air event on several evenings in the summer .

description

The moa theater does not have a permanent indoor venue , but rather performs plays mainly as an open-air theater . The summer performances have been taking place in Hanover since it was founded in 2001. The open-air performances, which take place on several evenings, reach a total of between 1,100 and 2,300 spectators annually, with indoor performances up to 600 people. The theater is organized as a non-profit association whose members work on a voluntary basis and which is financed through entrance fees and local sponsors . The club members belong to the age group between 20–60 years. You design the stage design , the stage lighting , props and the costume design mostly in-house. As a member of the Lower Saxony Amateur Theater Association , the moa theater belongs to the umbrella association of German amateur theaters . The purpose of the association is “to make theater accessible to a broad public on a voluntary basis with professional standards. Interested people of all ages should be given the opportunity to volunteer for moa theater's theater projects. "

Performances

The productions include around eight evening theater performances in the summer over a period of up to ten days. In each case, the audience is offered accessibility and the use of a sign language interpreter .

In the early years only Shakespeare plays were performed. Overall, the staging styles change a lot, as the directors (some of them amateurs from the ranks of the association, since 2010 also professionals from outside) change almost every year. The productions are deliberately “classic”, but also “fast-paced, humorous and modern”.

Performance venues

Kulturtreff Helmkehof for performances in 2013 and 2014

The venue in 2017 was on the terrace of the former Linden Castle, view of the stage

Between 2001 and 2007, seven different productions took place in front of the historical backdrop of the Welfenschloss in the Welfengarten in Hanover. From 2008 to 2010 the eastern inner courtyard of the New City Hall in Hanover was the location of the performances, which were supported by the city of Hanover. After an indoor production in 2011 and a performance on the courtyard of a culture meeting place in the Südstadt district , the performances changed from 2013 to 2014 to the grounds of the Helmkehof culture meeting place in the Hainholz district , which was a former rubber goods factory. In 2015, the performances took place on the site of the square project in the Linden-Mitte district . In 2016 the theater did not perform a play. In 2017 the moa theater will play on the palace terrace of the former Linden Palace in the Von-Alten-Garten .

Indoor productions

The ensemble performed its first indoor production in February 2006 in the auditorium of the International School Hannover Region . The Shakespeare play The Tempest was shown because there were weather-related failures during the open-air performance the year before. Further interior productions were “Romeo & Juliet - in twenty-five minutes” at the First Hanoverian Amateur Theater Festival 2007 in the Lister Turm leisure center and “King A” by Inèz Derksen at the M3 Menschenmachen Mode Hannover fashion school . In 2011 the theater group again performed an indoor production with the play Jedermann .

Productions

year	production
2001	William Shakespeare : Much Too About Nothing
2002	William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
2003	William Shakespeare: Lost Labor
2004	William Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor
2005	William Shakespeare: The Storm
2006	William Shakespeare: The Storm (Revival)
2006	Bertolt Brecht : Baal
2007	Friedrich Dürrenmatt : The Old Lady's Visit
2007	Romeo & Juliet - in twenty-five minutes, based on Shakespeare
2008	Jean Anouilh : Jeanne d'Arc or The Lark
2009	William Shakespeare: Henry IV
2010	Georg Büchner : Leonce and Lena
2011	Hugo von Hofmannsthal : Everyone
2012	Moritz Rinke : Republic of Vineta
2013	Dieter Forte : Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer or The introduction of bookkeeping
2014	Oliver Bukowski : Critical Mass
2015	Ingrid Lausund : Hysterikon
2017	Rüdiger Jantzen: The world runner
2018	Tom Stoppard : Inspector Hound, Jörg Graser : Jailhouse Blues
2019	Anke Kuhl : Lehmriese lives
2019	Henrik Ibsen : An enemy of the people

Web links

Association website

Individual evidence

↑ Press release from 2009 on the Heinrich IV performance

↑ Press release from 2006 on the Baal performance ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

^ Mentioned as a member of the Lower Saxony Amateur Theater Association

^ Association statutes of the moa theater e. V. of October 7, 2009 (PDF, 96 kB)

^ Corinna Mehlert: Young old girl - "The visit of the old lady" in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 13, 2007

^ The world as a supermarket in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 31, 2015

^ Karl May under Linden's open sky in [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] of August 11, 2017

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