Theater Gurten
The Gurten Theater is an open-air theater that has been held every two years on the Gurten above Bern ( Switzerland ) since 2002, with performances by a mixed ensemble of amateurs and professionals in the Bernese dialect.
history
The Gurten Theater was founded in 2002 by the director Livia Anne Richard . The premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's first play An Angel Comes to Babylon took place on June 28, 2002. Richard led so far in all the productions in the theater belts Director .
The play Dällebach Kari was such a great success in 2006 that it was reissued in 2007. Over the two years all 50 performances were completely sold out.
Venue
The theater takes place at a temporary venue with a grandstand with around 500 seats. Each production is shown between June and August in around 30 performances in front of around 15,000 spectators, with a break during the Gurten Festival taking place in the adjacent area .
Pieces played
| year | piece | author | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | An angel comes to Babylon | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
| 2004 | The charlatan | Markus Keller | premiere |
| 2006 | Dallsbach Kari | Livia Anne Richard | premiere |
| 2007 | Dallsbach Kari | Livia Anne Richard | Resumption from 2006 due to great demand |
| 2008 | Of mice and humans | John Steinbeck | Bern German adaptation |
| 2010 | Einstein | Livia Anne Richard | premiere |
| 2012 | Holzer's peep show | Markus Köbeli | |
| 2014 | paradise | Livia Anne Richard | premiere |
| 2016 | The rhinos | Eugène Ionesco | The original plan was to perform The Little Prince . Since the piece became public domain in 2015 , the team announced the move to another production in August 2015. |
| 2018 | Leave! Stress-free in 5 days | Livia Anne Richard | premiere |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Freilichttheater Gurten - myswitzerland.com, accessed on February 17, 2015
- ↑ An Angel Comes to Babylon (2002) ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the archive on the website of Theater Gurten, accessed on February 17, 2015
- ^ Allotment garden idyll at the Gurten open-air theater 2014 in the Berner Zeitung , November 12, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Our Garden of Eden" on the Gurten - tagblatt.ch, February 5, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2015.
- ↑ The tears of emotion have dried - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 1, 2015
