Theater on Ortweinplatz

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The theater on Ortweinplatz , TaO for short ! is a Graz theater that was founded in 1992 by Manfred Weissensteiner . It is played for a young audience from 8 years old, an important focus is theater education .

The repertoire features pieces by young authors as well as classic materials that are prepared for a young audience.

Basic acting training (body, voice, improvisation) is taught in weekly theater workshops for children and young people.

Great emphasis is placed on international cooperation and the promotion of young talent (e.g. as part of the young game award). This is how the TaO works! with international exchange projects such as a Kafka project with the Czech Republic and Germany and is involved in EU programs such as “ elmas ” or “insitu” .

In cooperation with the MezzaninTheater , an international theater festival for a young audience is organized in Graz every two years with spleen * graz .

In-house productions

Awards

  • TrauDi 2010 - Styrian Children's Rights Prize in the category "Organizations and Associations"

Excerpt from the jury's statement: "Leisure program for children and young people of different ages ...
Leisure program that combines artistic demands and classic youth work ...
Leisure program that deals with the life and development issues of children and young people ...
... all of this sounds either together according to a theoretical concept or a practical incompatibility - but the Theater am Ortweinplatz has managed to unite this for years: playing theater with small and large children, being a home for everyone, regularly making the pulse of young people visible and not only in Graz , but also in Styria and beyond. "

  • STELLA 2010 - Performing.Art.Prize of Assitej Austria for “The Holy Child” in the category “Outstanding Production for Young People”

The international jury Jutta Staerk (D), Laura Graser (LUX) and Barbro Frambäck (SE) attested: “Here a team is taking a real risk: In the youth theater, the immaculate conception is negotiated - seen and discussed from today, with irony and Form awareness. "

  • TrauDi 2009 - Styrian children's rights award for "brick in the wAll"
  • bestOFFstyria 2009 - theaterlandsteiermarkPRICE for "brick in the wAll"

The price of over 7,000 is intended for a production that represents the independent theater industry in Styria in a special way.

  • STELLA 2008 - Performing.Art.Prize of Assitej Austria for "Kabale und Liebe" in the category "Outstanding Production for Young People"
  • STELLA 2007 - Performing.Art.Prize of Assitej Austria for "Stones" and "Sisters"

In spring 2007 the TaO! awarded a total of three prizes for his two in-house productions "Stones" and "Schwestern".

  • bestOFFstyria 2007 - theaterlandsteiermarkPREIS for "Kabale und Liebe"

“Independent access to the classic template, specialty of the dramaturgical processing, refreshing preparation for a young audience,” said the jury.

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