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The Theater Der Kreis was a theater in Vienna that existed from 1987 to 1990.

history

From the beginning of 1987, George Tabori was the director of the Wiener Schauspielhaus in Porzellangasse 19 in the 9th district of Alsergrund . He called it "Theater Der Kreis" and set up a theater center with open workshops for actors in the A&A (actors and actresses) studio based on the model of The Actors Studio . Tabori saw it as a theater laboratory without production compulsion and as a counter-model to the “state theater luxury”.

With the help of the group therapy method, time-critical and realistic theater experiments should be carried out with the involvement of the audience. A central theme was self-exploration.

The opening took place on May 5, 1987 with Eugene O'Neill's The Ice Man Comes . Members of the changing ensemble included Therese Affolter , Otto Clemens , Angelica Domröse , Silvia Fenz , Ursula Höpfner , Isabel Karajan , Leslie Malton , Hildegard Schmahl , Michael Degen , Rainer Frieb , Detlef Jacobsen, Hilmar Thate and Vitus Zeplichal . Stanley Walden was responsible for the music and Andreas Szalla for the stage. As a co-director worked alongside Tabori Martin Fried .

Tabori directed Stalin by Gaston Salvatore , among others . For this he was awarded the audience prize at the Mülheim Theater Days in 1988. For the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's Women. War. Comedy in coproduction with the Wiener Festwochen and the Bregenz Festival in 1988, Tabori received the Kainz Medal for direction and Domröse the Kainz Medal for the portrayal of Clare. Further highlights were the world premiere of Lear's Shadow based on William Shakespeare in coproduction with the Bregenz Festival in 1989 and the performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in coproduction with the Wiener Festwochen 1989/90.

Other plays were cannibals by George Tabori in the brilliant production by Martin Fried with Otto Clemens in the lead role and Schuldig born (1987) based on interviews by Peter Sichrovsky , stage adaptation by George Tabori, Masada (based on Der Jüdische Krieg by Flavius ​​Josephus , adaptation by George Tabori and Ursula Voss, 1988) and Lovers and Crazy People (1989, Shakespeare collage).

The Theater Der Kreis ended with Tabori's move to the Burgtheater and the return of the founder of the Viennese theater, Hans Gratzer, in 1991.

literature

  • Manfred Brauneck , Gérard Schneilin (Ed.): Theater Lexicon 1. Terms and epochs, stages and ensembles . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 5th completely revised new edition August 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9 , keyword: Theater Der Kreis (Vienna) , p. 1058.

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