Theater Viel Lärm um Nichts

The theater MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING was founded in Munich in late 1985 as an independent theater group.

History

The founder and partner of theater, Margrit Carls and Andreas Seyferth had several years of work on municipal and state theaters set itself the goal of building a theater in the then cultural wasteland west of the city. The decision to work is "free" according to his own statement of claim to combine the quality standards acquired on the established theater with " an independent, self-willed, self- creative and communal mode of production ". The first premiere was Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing in May 1986. Theatre is now an integral part of the cultural center Pasinger factory, on the rise and establishment, it played a crucial role.

To date, the actor Margit Carls and Andreas Seyferth form the core of the theater. Seyferth also directs, while Carl is responsible for dramaturgy and work with texts. Since 1991, it always comes back to work with the Munich director Eos Schopohl. The ensemble piece is found based; but emphasis is placed on continuity.

Program

Focus on the game board are classics in their own translation and version; also epic substances are dramatized and over again. Particularly impressive are ( instead of the usual box set ) always new room designs.

It is further stated in the self-representation that they had a " soft spot for stories that convey existential human experience are equally fantastic, absurd, oblique way." The theater refers to Shakespeare as " writer in residence " and teacher and includes in its tradition of theater as a venue for " world - and self - invention ."

Reception

The theater is funded by the first production at the Cultural Department of the City of Munich. In the years 1996 and 1997 it was named one of the ten best off-theater from the German-speaking productions The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare) and Alice D. Through the Looking Glass ( an adaptation by Lewis Carroll ) at the theater festival Impulse to North Rhine -Westphalia invited.

In the grounds of the Munich theater jury for the promotion in 1995 it was said that the theater work " with a large, intellectually profound curiosity ". The pieces would gegenwartsnah and staged each in its own seemingly improvised style.