Shakespeare Company Berlin
The Shakespeare Company Berlin (SCB) offers its audience folk theater in its original sense and exclusively stages plays by William Shakespeare . The basis is specially made translations of his comedies, tragedies and histories. The company's productions are based on performance practice as it was practiced at the time of Shakespeare in the Elizabethan theater of the late 16th and early 17th centuries and thus probably also on the Shakespeare stage in the Globe Theater : A play on a simple stage without elaborate backdrops that relies entirely on the text and the performance of the actors and thus encourages the audience to add their imagination to the temporal and localization of the events on the stage (“word set”). There are also music, special costumes and closeness to the audience through to communication with the audience as further stylistic principles of Shakespearean folk theater. The ensemble appears in Berlin and on guest performances in German-speaking countries , there repeatedly at the Shakespeare Festival in Neuss .
History and purpose
The SCB was founded in 1999 on the initiative of the actor, director and Shakespeare translator Christian Leonard. From this an artist ensemble has developed that has built up a self-managed theater and guest performance company. The game was initially played on courts in Berlin, including in a church ruin, and later in a tent on the banks of the Spree (at the East Side Gallery ) and in the home port of Neukölln.
The SCB has been playing in the Schöneberger Südgelände Nature Park since 2011 and is continuously expanding this location. Here she appears on her own open-air stage when the weather is good , and in the rain until 2016 in an industrial monument there , the 4000 m² locomotive hall. Integrated into the open-air stage, which has been covered since 2017, are elements of the Globe Theater replica from Roland Emmerich's film Anonymus .
In 2016, 13 members of the ensemble founded their own operating company: Shakespeare in Grün GmbH. The SCB sees itself as a theater collective. According to your own description, artistic, personal and economic decisions are made on a grassroots basis. It sees itself as an "alternative to the theater manager managed by the theater manager".
Children's and youth theater
The Shakespeare Kids, founded in 2003 as a theater for children and young people, are an integral part of the SCB. Actors and theater educators from the ensemble bring Shakespeare's work closer to children and encourage their enjoyment of role play, language and scenic fantasy.
academy
Since 2019, adults, young people and school classes interested in theater have been able to learn the basics of theater acting in workshops guided by actors from the SCB and get playful insights into their productions.
program
In the winter of 2019/2020, the SCB made guest appearances with Das Wintermärchen , Verlorene Liebesmüh and Der Sturm in the Delphi cinema in Berlin-Weißensee , in the "Glashaus" in Berlin-Treptow and in the "Kulturstall" of the Britz Palace in Berlin-Britz .
In guest performances, the SCB shows lost love effort in Andernach , Kaufbeuren , Lienz and Villach , Maß für Maß in Basel , A Midsummer Night's Dream in Crailsheim and Brunsbüttel , The Storm in Wetzlar , The Taming of the Unruly in Nordhorn and What you want in Amstetten , Vöcklabruck and Wels .
literature
- Dalinda Maamar: Shakespeare Company Berlin - A Vision in Progress . Klaus Peter Steiger: Epilogue . In: William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Translated from English by Christian Leonard. Photographs by Susanne Schleyer. Lettrétage, Berlin 2007, pp. 137–140, 141–144.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Andrew Gurr: The Shakespearean Stage . In: Stephen Greenblatt (Ed.): The Norton Shakespeare . New York, London (WW Norton & Company) 1997, pp. 3281-3301, here: 3288-3296. ISBN 0-393-04107-7 .
- ↑ A Midsummer Night's Dream! Shakespeare Company Berlin shakespeare-festival.de, accessed on February 14, 2014.
- ^ Company. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
- ^ Company. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .