Indoor theater
A room theater is a theater operation that takes place in a former shop or in another room specially set up for a theater operation.
The room theaters founded by freelance actors or committed amateurs are even smaller than the experimental and rehearsal stages of the city theaters, which are mostly called “studio stages”. What makes them special is that they have no “peep box” characteristics, the paying spectators sit close to the edge of the action. Occasionally, this means that they can be addressed directly and included in the game. The art of the actor consists, among other things, in “always knowing exactly how far he can go too far” ( Marcel Pagnol ). The room theaters, often keen to experiment, also dare to play pieces that are not played on larger stages.
Among the most famous venues of this type, the part Helmuth Gmelin was founded in 1949 by his daughter Gerda Gmelin continuing Hamburger Theater in the room . The Zimmer Theater Tübingen - located next to the famous Hölderlin Tower - was at times under the direction of George Tabori . Sometimes vaulted cellars are also converted into theaters; This then results in the slightly next larger variant of the cellar theater , for example the Garn Theater in Berlin-Kreuzberg , which started out as a room theater in an ex-shop.
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literature
- Frank Thiess: Theater without a ramp. Pieces for room theaters and studio stages. Series of publications: The Mainz series. Wegner, Hamburg 1956