Callo-Theater
The Callo Theatre is a nationally renowned theater project for young people and young adults.
History
In 2001, the Callo Theatre in Marcel Callo House in Castrop -Rauxel was founded a youth center. In his first and inaugural season, the ensemble of Callo - theater participated in the project " Theatre against law". As part of the NRW -wide project staged in January Vollmer, the first director of the Callo - theater of Bertolt Brecht Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.
In the years that followed, slowly, the special concept of the Callo - theater developed. Encouraged by the success and very good reviews from Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, it was decided to run the Callo - theater on. It was clear from the outset that the Callo - theater should be more than ordinary amateur theater.
Concept
" Theater for and by young people is more than occupational therapy and social work " and in the sense of Georges Clemenceau "The theater is too important to leave it to the theater scientists " were the determining principles of Callo - theater. Conscious avant-garde methods, multimedia and clear social statements, less work and more work on the role play as a Gesamtkunstwerk were the hallmarks of the Callo - theater. The great heterogeneity of the group (pupils, students, trainees from different disciplines ) is the greatest asset of Callo - theater, as it and as it were theater at the State of Art of carpenters, students, economists, mathematicians etc. for carpenters, students, economists mathematician does. The concept of Callo - theater deliberately conceived as an antidote to theater education Funktionalisierungstendenzen to the art form of theater.