THE OSCHOLARS
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Vol. IV No. 3
issue no 34:
March 2007
Going Wilde
Current & Forthcoming Productions
With the specific appointment of Michelle Paull as Associate Editor for English Theatre and Tiffany Perala as Associate Editor for American Theatre, we will be improving our coverage from those countries. Information from Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden is provided by our other Associate Editors, but will not yet be as complete.
Our new section on this page, ‘Beyond the Wilderness’, will notice at least a selection of other productions that come within our fin-de-siècle remit. Again, we hope readers will help provide information.
Current productions are given as a rolling list, new ones being added each month, old ones being removed on expiry.
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1.
Canada
An Ideal
Husband
The
Stratford Festival of Canada is honouring Artistic Director Richard Monette this summer season with what they are calling a
season devoted to: ‘The Outsider: An “Other” World’. Monette
will be directing An Ideal Husband running 31st
July
2.
England
The Canterville Ghost
English National Ballet is on tour
with The
Canterville Ghost. Narrated by Tom
Baker. One can see a preview on the English National
Ballet website.
‘The Canterville Ghost has been haunting his house for 400 years and he doesn’t take kindly to the American family who move in, especially not the naughty twins! However, he becomes fond of the beautiful Virginia, who is falling in love with Cecil, a bumbling English Duke.
‘The Ghost
entices
The cast varies
but the following take part: Begoña Cao (
Choreography
Will Tuckett Music
Martin Ward Narrator
Tom Baker Set design
Dick Bird
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Costume design
Sue Blane Lighting
design
Neil Austin Adaptation
Michael
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Photographs
by Patrick Baldwin
Regent Theatre,
The Importance of Being Earnest
Devonshire Park Theatre
7th – 10th and 21st – 24th March
Lady Windermere's Fan
Compass Theatre, Outer
Ruislip Dramatic Society
16th May to 19th
May 2007
3.
France
Danielle
Guérin, our Associate Editor for French cultural
affairs, is compiling a directory of all French productions for our
sister publication Rue des beaux arts,
which she edits. This will appeal
serially and an amalgamated list will eventually be published in the folder of
the Société Oscar Wilde in the webpages of THE
OSCHOLARS at www.oscholars.com,
where Rue des beaux arts
is housed. Greater attention will
be paid to French language productions (or English
language productions in
In October 2006 we listed all the productions of the last three years. Since then, other productions have continued to appear.
The Importance of being Ernest / L'Importance d'être Constant which as reported in October issue opened at the Théâtre Antoine on 8th September 2006 has thrice had its run extended and is now expected to play until the end of April.
Lady Windermere’s
Fan / L’Éventail de Lady Windermere
Having finished its
run at the Théâtre 14 in
4.
Germany
Report from Lucia Krämer.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Bunbury – Ernst ist das Leben, a production of the German
translation of Earnest by Elfriede Jelinek,
is still in repertory at the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater
Director: Bettina Bruinier
Décor: Claudia Rohner
Costumes: Markus Karner
With Aylin
Esener, Gabriele Heinz, Barbara Schnitzler, Kathrin Wehlisch, Peter Beck, Peter Pagel,
Thomas Schmidt, Bernd Stempel, Oliver Urbanski
20th, 28th March 2007
The Canterville Ghost (Das Gespenst
von Canterville)
is still being presented at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
Director: Dirk Engler
Décor and
costumes: Barbara Kaesbohrer
Music: Martin
Lutz
With Sandra Gerling,
Veronika Nickl, Katja Uffelmann, Matthias Beitmann, Mark Oliver Bögel,
Philipp Denzel, Henning Hartmann, Ralph M. Küster,
Christoph Pütthoff
5th, 11th, 25th, 26th March, 8th, 29th,
An Ideal
Husband - Ein idealer Gatte
Theater Kiel
Directed by Daniel Karasek
Costumes and Décor: Ina Reuter
With Stefan W. Wang, Rainer Jordan, Matthias Unruh, Agnes Richter, Mirjam Smejkat, Vera Weisbrod, Olaf Salmon, Claudia Macht, Almuth Schmidt, Ellen Dorn
2nd, 10th, 16th, 18th, 28th March, 5th, 14th, 18th, 29th
April 2007
An Ideal Husband (Ein
idealer Gatte)
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Opened
Director: Armin Holz
Decor: Heike van Bentum, Armin Holz
Costumes: Esther Walz
Music: Philipp Weiss
With Margit Carstensen, Claude De Demo, Jeanette Hain, Imogen Kogge, Veronika Nickl, Josefin Platt, Markus Boysen, Hans Diehl, Sebastian Koch, Michael Lippold, Jaschar Sarabtchian, Cornelius Schwalm
15th, 18th March 2007
5.
Switzerland
Salome
A production by
Annie Bisang is announced for January 2008 at the Comédie de Génève,
6. THE UNITED STATES
Our Associate Editor with responsibility for United States Theatre is Tiffany Perala. Do please alert her to any coming productions. @
The Importance of Being Earnest
A production is
announced at the Powel Crosley Theatre, Palmetto,
The Importance will also be produced the University at Buffalo 18th-22nd April directed by Robert Knopf and at California State University directed by Cynthia Lammel. Details to follow.
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
Bungay Theatre Group, The Fisher Theatre
Bungay
26th – 28th April
BEYOND
THE WILDERNESS
German productions kindly provided by Lucia Krämer; French ones by Danielle Guérin; English ones by Michelle Paull.
Madame Bovary
Theater
Directed by Meret Matter
11th, 15th March, 5th, 26th,
Henrik Ibsen
Brand
Residenz Theater München
Directed by Thomas Langhoff
With Gabi Geist, Stephanie Leue, Franziska Rieck, Heide von Strombeck, Judith Toth, Peter Albers, Robert Joseph Bartl, Ulrich Beseler, Rainer Bock, Burchard Dabinnus, Stefan Hunstein, Alfred Kleinheinz, Maximilian Löwenstein, Arnulf Schumacher, Helmut Stange, Stefan Wilkening
5th, 27th March;
Brand
The Théâtre National de Strasbourg has issued a DVD of its
production.
Doll’s House see Nora
Ghosts (Les
Revenants)
Théâtre 13, Paris
Directed by Arnaud Denis
With Michèle André, Arnaud Denis, Jean-Pierre Leroux,
Bernard Métraux, Elisabeth Ventura
6th March
Ghosts
(Gespenster)
Schaubühne
Transl. Angelika Gundlach
Directed by
Sebastian Nübling
With Judith
Engel, Bruno Cathomas, Robert Beyer, Jörg Hartmann, Lea Draeger
23rd,
24th, 25th March, 15th, 16th, 17th, 29th, 30th April 2007
Hedda
Gabler
Théâtre National de la Colline, Paris
Directed by Richard Brunel
With Paule Annen, David
Ayala, Gilette Barbier, Cécile Garcia Fogel, Laurent Meininger, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Julie Pilod
26th May – 24th June 2007
Hedda Gabler
Schaubühne am
Transl. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel
Directed by Thomas Ostermeier
With Lars Eidinger, Katharina Schüttler, Lore Stefanek, Annedore Bauer, Jörg Hartmann, Kay Bartholomäus Schulze
Hedda Gabler
Deutsches Theater, Göttingen
Directed by Henner Kallmeyer
With Gerd Zinck, Andrea Strube, Elsbeth May, Julia Hansen, Andreas Klumpf, Andreas Jeßing
28th March; 1st, 4th, 11th, 20th, 21st April 2007
Hedda Gabler
Kleines Theater, Bad Godesberg
Directed by Paul Bäcker
With Anouschka Renzi, Ursula B. Kannegießer, Myriam Stark, Matthias Kiel, Steffen Laube, Lorenz Schirren
30th January
Hedda Gabler
Schauspiel Hannover
Directed by Christina Paulhofer
8th, 11th, 28th March; 8th, 21st, 28th April 2007
Hedda Gabler
Schauspiel Leipzig
Directed by Markus Dietz
With Thomas Huber, Stephanie Schönfeld, Susanne Stein, Silvia Weiskopf, Andreas Keller, Alexander Gamnitzer, Julia Berke
8th, 14th, 23rd March;
Hedda Gabler
Theater
Directed by Philipp Preuss
With Michael Kamp, Pit-Jan Lößer,
22nd, 31st March
2007
Hedda Gabler
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Directed by Stephan Rottkamp
5th, 15th, 26th, 29th March; 4th, 9th, 12th, 30th April 2007
Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler
Theater an der Rott, Eggenfelden
Opens
Hedda Gabler
Landesbühne Rheinland-Pfalz,
Directed by Paul Bäcker
With Ursula B. Kannegießer, Anouschka Renzi, Myriam Stark, Mathias
6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th March;
Hedda Gabler
Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
Directed by Amina Gusner
With Peter René Lüdicke, Katja Riemann, Werner Eng, Anne Lebinsky, Andreas Herrmann
Hedda Gabler
Das Theater an der Effingerstrasse,
Opens
Hedda Gabler
A new version by Judith Thompson.
14th to
Die Frau vom Meer (The Lady from the Sea)
Directed by Armin Petras
With Horst Kotterba, Anja Schneider, Hilke Altefrohne, Anika Baumann, Robert Kuchenbuch, Gunnar Teuber, Ronald Kukulies, Michael Klammer
3rd, 14th March, 13th April 2007
Die Frau vom Meer
Theater
Opens
Klein Eyolf (Little Eyolf)
Directed by
Baumeister Solness (The Masterbuilder)
Directed by Armin Petras
With Peter Kurth, Cristin König, Andreas Leupold, Peter Moltzen, Iringó Réti, Anja Schneider
10th March, 18th April 2007
Baumeister Solness (The Masterbuilder)
Residenz Theater München
Directed by Tina Lanik
With Beatrix Doderer, Cornelia Froboess, Marina Galic, Gerd Anthoff, Lambert Hamel, Jan-Peter Kampwirth, Fred Stillkrauth
13th, 30th March; 12th, 19th April 2007
Nora (A Doll’s House)
Schaubühne am
Transl. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel
Directed by Thomas Ostermeier
With Jörg Hartmann, Anne Tismer, Lars Eidinger, Jenny Schily, Kay Bartholomäus Schulze, Isabelle Redfern
18th, 19th March 2007
Nora
Theater
Directed by Klaus Weise
With Yorck Dippe,
3rd, 24th March; 11th, 27th April 2007
Nora
Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
Opens
Nora
TheaterKiel
Directed by Hanna Rudolph
With Agnes Richter, Marko Gebbert, Imanuel Humm, Eva Krautwig, David Allers, Luisa Taraz
Opens 24th March, 25th, 29th March; 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th April 2007
Nora
Theater im Bauturm, Köln
Directed by Axel Siefer
With Annette Frier, Gerhardt Haag, Oliver Matthiae, Gabriele Quast, Frank Voß
Nora. Ein Puppenheim
Kleines theater - Kammerspiele Landshut
Directed by Sven Grunert
With Winfried Gropper, Jasmin Jiwa, Julia Koschitz, Bettina Schönenberg, Andreas Sigrist, Florian Stadler
16th, 17th March 2007
Nora oder Ein
Puppenheim (A Doll’s House)
Mainfranken Theater Würzburg
Directed by Bernhard Stengele
With Edith Abels, Natalie Forester, Katharina Ries, Andreas Anke, Max de Nil, Christian Higer, Philipp Reinheimer Henrik Ibsen
28th, 29th March; 4th, 5th, 13th April 2007
Rosmersholm
Schauspielhaus Bochum
Transl. Hinrich
Schmidt-Henkel
Directed by Elmar Goerden
With Imogen Kogge, Katja Uffelmann, Markus Boysen, Martin Horn, Benno Ifland, Klaus Weiss
3rd, 24th March, 6th,
The Wild Duck (Die Wildente)
Schauspiel Hannover
Directed by Barbara Bürk
With Sonja Beißwenger, Moritz Dürr, Dieter Hufschmidt, Jana Lissovskaia, Peter Knaack, Marcel Metten, Ingo Schröder, Martina Struppek
10th March;
The Wild
Duck
Directed by Thomas Luft
Theater
Opens
The Real Thing
The Oxted Players The Barn
Theatre
Oxted
16th – 19th May
Maurice Maeterlinck
Der blaue Vogel [L’oiseau bleu)
Staatstheater Darmstadt
Director: Andrej Woron
3rd, 17th, 23rd March, 14th April 2007
Jekyll & Hyde
30th April to 5th May 2007
Jekyll & Hyde
Watlington Players Watlington
Village Hall
Kings
29th May – 2nd June
La Maison Brûlée -
Pièce De Chambre. Opus 2
Directed by Aurélia Guillet in a new production by the
Théâtre Nationale de Strasbourg and the Compagnie Image et
½.
15th March to 4th
April
Mademoiselle
Julie
Directed by Laura Huonker.
With Alicia Aumüller, Lisa Marie Fix, Krunoslav Sebrek
Theater an der Sihl, Zürich
Opens
The Dance of Death (La danse de mort)
Théâtre de la Madeleine, Paris
Directed by Hans Peter Cloos
With Matthias Bensa, Ophélia
Kolb Kasapoglu, Charlotte Rampling,
Didier Sandre, Bernard Verley
15th February – 27th April 2007
The Dance of Death (Totentanz)
Schauspielhaus
Directed by Karin Henkel
10th March, 8th April 2007
The Dance of Death (Totentanz)
Berliner Ensemble
Directed by Thomas Langhoff
With Christina Drechsler, Ruth Glöss, Dagmar Manzel, Dieter Mann, Götz Schubert
3rd, 12th, 24th, 29th March, 18th,
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