English Language Theatre at Hamburg University
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We have a cast! Thanks to everyone who came by and auditioned, it was lots of fun and great to see so many interested, talented people! For everyone interested in joining the crew: Come to our readthrough on wednesday 6-9pm at the audimax!
✨AUDITIONS START TODAY! ✨
Please note that you’ll be close to other people and not wearing masks during the auditions so to make it as safe as possible this is a 2G+ event and EVERYONE needs to bring a current negative test result, INCLUDING people who have been vaccinated 3 times! See you later! 🎭
We are looking for crew! With every play we need a lot of people to help in our departments: costume and make-up, stage building, public relations, tech and many more! We are also always looking for assistant directors, stage managers and many others! If you are intrerested, just come by at our readthrough, no signing up needed! See you there
Okay everyone, auditions are back on! You can come by at any of the three audition dates and you do not need to prepare anything (except for your 2G+ proof - everyone needs a test no matter how many times you have been vaccinated as you will have to be close to strangers on stage and take off your masks). We are looking forward to seeing you there! ☺️
Unfortunately, just as our auditions are coming up, our new play's director has to quarantine herself. Therefore auditions and readthrough are postponed - we will inform you about new dates as soon as possible! Stay tuned!
We are happy to announce that after two years of almost no theatre we are finally holding auditions again! Everyone interested in acting, come by and audition at any of the dates! And everyone interested in Crew: Come to our readthrough on the 12.01.2022, 18:00-21:15 (Audimax). 🙌
Come see our one-night show! We've prepared five short plays to address the planet's biggest crisis: climate change. In partnership with Climate Change Theatre Action, we're using our stage to showcase a series of possible futures and inspire people to take action.
Admission is free but donations will go to Ember, an EU nonprofit fighting for a rapid transition to clean energy.
Friday, November 26, 7:30 p.m. at the Audimax
If you would like to join us for an hour or so of socializing, learning about the University Players and getting to know our second home, the Audimax, send your rsvp to [email protected]
We present: Our new stage with perfect wings! 🙌
It's stage building weekend! We're trying out all our new equipment and getting ready for this semester :D
Stay tuned!
If you haven't made it to the FEATS online fringe this year, worry no more!
We're publishing our short play "Confab" by Friederike Baier on YouTube tonight at 7:30 pm. See you there!
P.S.: It will still be available after the premiere like many of our previous plays, such as Shakespeare's The Tempest, Joan of Arc or Somewhere In Between (to name but a few).
So check out our channel for your theatre needs, there's plenty to see!
A chance encounter between two strangers on a train. Through their conversation we get an insight into their view of the world, the challenges they face and ...
GOOD NEWS! After a long virus-induced hiatus that had us all depraved of our community and our passion, our friends at the ECC came up with a way to bring a little bit of theatre back into our lives.
Book your FREE tickets now for this year's VIRTuAL FEATS FRINGE, where you will be seeing a large number of (pre-recorded), often original short plays by different FEATS regulars.
DATES: 14/15/16 May, starting at 7.15 pm
Programme/TICKETS: http://feats.eu/foh/book-now-for-the-virtual-feats-fringe-2021/
We are happy to tell you that will be representing with an original short play written by one of our own. The piece is called "Confab" and will premiere on the 15th of May.
We would love to see you there!
Announcements / Festivals Book now for the virtual FEATS fringe 2021 by FEATS Webmaster25 April 20213 May 2021 Once again FEATS has fallen victim to the global health crisis, and we shall not be seeing each other in Brussels. However, our friends at ECC have come up with a wizard wheeze to compensat...
It's the lobster takeover! Our unofficial mascot Ike shows you some of his favourite props: https://youtu.be/I1EnSAi4R1o
Checking in from isolation, it's your favourite unofficial mascot showing you some of my favourite props! Thanks to my friend Susan who helped me with some o...
From the 80s and the early 2010s. We still have the red dress, blue tracksuit jacket and possibly the red suit from Hamlet.
In order: Travesties (1986), 2 photos from Relative Values (1987), The Taming of the Shrew (2011), Hamlet (2012).
#flashbackfriday
Since we're not from Performance Studies, we don't need rooms to rehearse. We'll just do a run-through of the dance in some random hallway.
Choreography in its' early stages from 1980 IV: Splashing In Between (2019). You can watch the full play on Youtube: https://bit.ly/2CTszwK
This was long before coronavirus.
Thanks to Universität Hamburg
Continuing with our little Shakespeare on campus retrospective, take a look at the noughties! Two photos from As You Like It (2000), Romeo and Juliet (2003), Macbeth (2005) and Richard III (2008). Lots of green/blue concepts, though that might be the scans. If you have any fun memories, leave a comment!
📷 2003 J Flügel
The Hamburg Players e.V.
Fancy getting those creative juices flowing? Why not take part in Tortive Theatre's new creative writing competition, Flash Fiction 101. All stories must be exactly 101 words in length. No more; no less. The winning entry of each month will be included in the shortlist for the annual competition in June 2021. It will be professionally recorded and voiced, and broadcast as part of the digital series at the Worcester Fringe 2021.
Details can be found at https://www.tortivetheatre.com/flash101
Do you know anything about the origin of this Elizabethan gown? It was used in A Night at the Audimax (2019) and seems quite old. It is probably the same dress which was used for The Taming of the Shrew (2011) with some alterations. It also looks very similar to the gown used in The Taming of the Shrew (1990), although it seems greener in the scanned photo. Is it a leftover from the costume-hiring-days? Was it worn in both Taming of the Shrew productions on purpose?
I'm also pretty sure we still have the black fascinator worn for The Taming of the Shrew (2011).
📷 2019: G2Baraniak
#Flashbackfriday
If you want to guess, don't scroll down. It's all Shakespeare from the 80s and 90s.
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Twelfth Night (88), Measure for Measure (81), two photos from Midsummer Night's Dream (94), Merry Wives of Windsor (98) and a bonus from Midsummer Night's Dream 2016 (G2 Baraniak) because I'm pretty sure that's the fur coat from Merry Wives of Windsor.
We still have that coat, 22 years is not bad going! Of course, we would never buy a new fur coat.
If you have kids & are interested in free stories check out Stories for Everyone on Facebook
#FlashbackFriday to 1984. This was the video for the projection and it's over two hours long. You're welcome!
Don't use the word "Webinar" for any online classes just to be safe. Use workshop instead, this word is being used for absolutely everything, even if the class contains zero practical components, so if you are looking for a catch-all term, look no further.
Das Wort "Webinar" ist seit der Corona-Krise ein oft verwendetes Wort 👈. Doch Vorsicht - es ist seit 2003 ein geschütztes Wort... und kann ganz schön teuer werden wer es benutzt‼️
Joan rallies her troops in this clip from Joan of Arc 2018. Watch the full play on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGA8HA58oQ
#Flashbackfriday
Filmed on location in & around the Audimax. Special shout-out to the people to the background and the guy on the bike.
📹Edgars Noskovs
Deadline is tomorrow!
This is a reminder that applications for LOL (Leatss Online Summer School) close on Friday 10th July. If you are still toying with the idea of doing something creative online during the last week in July, now is the chance to work with top professionals from the UK for very moderate fees. We can highly recommend summer school which some HPs have been attending for years.
For anyone still interested in Kate Colgrave-Pope’s course, Monologue Mash-up, Kate has added extra sessions so that those on the waiting list can be accommodated and there is place for one more participant.
Janice Dunn has adapted her course Our Digital Town, separating it into 2 parts so that participants can do either the first, or the second, or both. The first (DEV) will concentrate on the development of the piece (writing/devising), and the second (ACT) on bringing it to life (acting).
All information on courses, timetable and costs, as well as the application form, can be found on the website at www.leatss.lu.
#Flashbackfriday to when we still did cardio!
A different angle of our trailer shoot for "A Night at the Audimax". Look at that smoke!
Watch the full musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOhwcwl7VY
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhls1LJY7Rg
Thanks to Edgars Noskovs for the video.
What is your favourite professor doing at home?
If you want to get in on the joke, watch the full musical on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOhwcwl7VY
This was previously uploaded to instagram, since it's a mickey-take on influencers. Follow us: @ universityplayershh
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Thanks to Simon and everyone who loaned us their bathroom.
Searching online, you can find several stories about things going wrong in theatre. This is one of my favourites:
Beauty and the Beast
During a high school production of Beauty and the Beast, where I was assistant costumer and assistant prop master, our director decided that we needed to spice up Gaston’s introduction. You know: in the movie, when Lefou runs in trying to catch the duck/goose that Gaston has just shot out of the sky?
Originally, the actors were going to stroll on stage with our Lefou hauling in the really neat (and real!) taxidermied deer head that we had found in a local thrift store. Now, two days before opening night, our director wants Lefou to run in from off stage and catch a stuffed duck that Gaston has just shot. This, of course, requires two things to work properly as a scene: a gunshot noise, and a stuffed duck.
The gunshot noise, we had covered. Blue-collar, redneck school? Guns aplenty to record. The stuffed duck? Harder than you might have thought to obtain.
Three hunting stores, two taxidermists, and one Pet Supply Store ™, I’d finally found a semi-realistic pheasant squeaky toy. What follows is an account of the ways this dog toy managed to be the nightmare prop of the six-show run.
Opening Night: The stagehand, who was supposed to drop the bird from the ceiling catwalk, missed his cue and didn’t drop it. Lefou’s actor rolls with it and does an excellent job of looking around foolishly before getting cuffed upside the head by Gaston. The stagehand then drops the bird squarely on Gaston’s head. Cue laughter.
Saturday Matinee: Different stagehand throws the bird instead of dropping it and beans Lefou directly in the face with the prop. Lefou falls over. Cue laughter.
Saturday Night: Bird is missing during curtain call. Director hauls the deer head down from its place on the tavern wall and tells Gaston and Lefou to revert to the old blocking i.e. no gunshot, no bird, just walk in with trophy. During Gaston and Lefou’s conversation, gunshot sound goes off and a stagehand throws the bird onto the stage…from the wrong side of the stage. Lefou and Gaston stare at it in awkward silence for a solid thirty seconds before Lefou makes an off-script, subtle joke about Gaston’s gun going off late instead of early. Cue adults in the audience laughing.
Sunday Matinee: Director begs the stagehands to get the cue right at least once. Gunshot and bird prop go off without a hitch. Lefou accidentally catches the prop when it falls from the catwalk. He’s so startled that he caught it that Gaston runs right into him. They drop both the gun and the bird props, and grab the wrong prop in their scramble. Gaston spends the rest of the scene gesturing dramatically with a stuffed pheasant, instead of a gun.
Sunday Night: Director is fed up with bird prop, decides that Lefou should just carry bird prop in after gunshot happens off stage. Lefou accidentally squeezes the prop during the intro conversation, startling both actors into silence with the squeaky toy noise - apparently, neither of them realized it was a dog toy.
Monday Elementary School Show: Lefou walks on stage with the bird. Accidentally drops the prop during the conversation with Gaston. Gaston doesn’t notice the dropped prop and steps on it. Cue depressingly sad squeaky toy noise. Cue ten years olds laughing.
Taken from: https://theatrestories.tumblr.com/post/125713258779/beauty-and-the-beast Plenty more stories there!
During a high school production of Beauty and the Beast, where I was assistant costumer and assistant prop master, our director decided that we needed to spice up Gaston’s introduction. You know: in...
Tonight is the #Nightoflight2020 to draw attention to the event industry which has really felt the effects of the pandemic. The goal isn't to force anyone to ease restrictions just to open venues, it's about bringing attention to the people who lost their jobs and venues that may never bounce back. There is a live stream tonight where a panel will discuss how to save the industry before multiple places have to declare bankruptcy due to still having expenses but not making any money. There is also a live music live stream. Here's the website: https://night-of-light.de/
Watch the trailer we made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCknZcfQwo
Watch the full play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWZ4MhD9iI
Watch the full Behind the Scenes: https://youtu.be/eMkhyqE3REc
Two of your favourite Splashers and their producer/faceless creature try to decide where to apply drugs. #Flashbackfriday
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Scroll down for English. Zu Beginn jedes Semesters beginnt eine neue Theaterproduktion, bei der jeder mitwirken darf. Jeweils im April und Oktober finden Vorsprechtermine für potenzielle Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler statt, zu denen jeder, der gutes Englisch spricht und sich auf der großen Audimax-Bühne wohlfühlt, herzlich willkommen ist. Wir freuen uns natürlich über jeden, der mit Theatererfahrung zu uns kommt, aber es ist keine Grundvoraussetzung: Unter der Anleitung von erfahrenen Workshopsmitgliedern erhalten Neulinge die Möglichkeit, in allen Bereichen (Produktionsleitung, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Programmzeitung, Regie, Schauspiel, Licht, Ton, Kostüm- und Bühnendesign, Maske etc.) jene praktischen Erfahrungen zu sammeln, die einen späteren Einstieg in das professionelle Theater ermöglichen. Für viele "Ehemalige" waren die UNIVERSITY PLAYERS das Sprungbrett für eine Karriere im Theater- und Medienbereich. Und gut im Lebenslauf macht sich die Mitarbeit allemal… Productions start at the begnning of each semster. Auditions for actors and actresses take place in April and October. Anyone who can speak English and feels comfortable on the Audimax stage is welcome. We welcome anyone with or without theatre experience. Under the lead of current members, you can join in on production, PR, writing the programme, directing, acting, lighting, sound, set disign, costume design, props and make-up. Many former members went on to work in professional theatre and volunteering will definitely look good on your CV. Impressum Verantwortlich für den Inhalt dieser Seiten: University Players e.V. | Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 6 20146 Hamburg Geschäfts-Nr. VR 9487 Amtsgericht Hamburg, Caffamachereihe 20, 20355 Hamburg Tel.: 040/428 38 48 52 E-Mail:[email protected] Internet: http://www.universityplayers.de Verantwortlich für den Inhalt dieser Internetseite gemäß §6 MDStV ist Julia Siebrecht (1. Vorsitzende). Haftungsausschluss Trotz sorgfältiger inhaltlicher Kontrolle übernehmen wir keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links. Für den Inhalt der verlinkten Seiten sind ausschließlich deren Betreiber verantwortlich.
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Since we're not from Performance Studies, we don't need rooms to rehearse. We'll just do a run-through of the dance in some random hallway. Choreography in its' early stages from 1980 IV: Splashing In Between (2019). You can watch the full play on Youtube: https://bit.ly/2CTszwK This was long before coronavirus. Thanks to Universität Hamburg
#FlashbackFriday to 1984. This was the video for the projection and it's over two hours long. You're welcome!
Joan rallies her troops in this clip from Joan of Arc 2018. Watch the full play on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGA8HA58oQ #Flashbackfriday Filmed on location in & around the Audimax. Special shout-out to the people to the background and the guy on the bike. 📹Edgars Noskovs
What is your favourite professor doing at home? If you want to get in on the joke, watch the full musical on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOhwcwl7VY This was previously uploaded to instagram, since it's a mickey-take on influencers. Follow us: @ universityplayershh #Flashbackfriday #ad Thanks to Simon and everyone who loaned us their bathroom.
#Flashbackfriday to when we still did cardio! A different angle of our trailer shoot for "A Night at the Audimax". Look at that smoke! Watch the full musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOhwcwl7VY Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhls1LJY7Rg Thanks to Edgars Noskovs for the video.
Watch the trailer we made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCknZcfQwo Watch the full play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWZ4MhD9iI Watch the full Behind the Scenes: https://youtu.be/eMkhyqE3REc Two of your favourite Splashers and their producer/faceless creature try to decide where to apply drugs. #Flashbackfriday
Watch the influencers attending the university's 200th anniversary. At the front: Food IzCold and Fifi Bibou. #Flashbackfriday Watch the entire musical on Youtube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOhwcwl7VY Videography @Edgars Noskovs Questionable food choices: Ryan and Svenja
Watch the full sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gots69P02xs Special Thanks: As Arthur M. Jenkins: Steven Montero Filming: Jana Stüven and David Heuberg Book crafting and design: Luka Henn Polishing Art’s jacket: Marleen Jalas All on-set helpers who held up blankets to improve the sound. Thanks for your patience and sorry about your arm cramp! Music: NoWay3 by PeriTune | http://peritune.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #FlashbackFriday
Watch a fight from our summer 2018 play Joan of Arc. Full version available on youtube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGA8HA58oQ Director: Simon Deggim Videography: Edgars Noskovs Lighting: Tom White
Caption contest! You can click the paper plane and share this in your story with a caption. If you tag @universityplayershh we can share it. #flashbackfriday . . . #uphh #unihh #theatrephotography #hamburg #theaterhamburg #kulturhamburg #theatrehamburg #studenttheatre #theatrelife #theatrelove #theatrefun #hamburg #acting #amateurtheatre #influencers #theatresnaps #behindthescenes #captioncontest
When your least favourite influencer is about to give a long speech...
And here it's is, the obligatory 'hanging up the giant poster' video. The face we painted yesterday will greet you from high up in the Audimax when you come to see our show. Here are the dates again, which we are drawing ever closer to by the day: 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 january 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 february 7:30 pm Audimax, Von-Melle-Park 4 Regular 12€ Concession 6€
What an intense weekend of rehearsals. We felt cleansed and dirty at the same time.
!!!SPOILER!!! Today, on the 52nd anniversary of the famous "Unter den Talaren, M**f von 1000 Jahren" Student protest in our very own Audimax, we give you this - the grand Finale of "A Night at the Audimax". If you don't want a major surprise spoiled for tonight's final show, don't watch this. If you're still not sure whether to come, definitely watch this. You're gonna want to know more. Happy protesting rigged education systems, one and all! 7.30 pm. Audimax. Free admission. LAST chance, y'all!
Our actors will be getting ready for tonight's show like this... How are you getting ready? Either way, see you there! 7.30 pm, Audimax FREE admission
Sneak peek: What to expect in our three upcoming shows! [Minor spoilers ahead] Video by Edgars Noskovs & Rashed Payam
Oops, apparently we uploaded a faulty file earlier. Well, if you wanna see the ultimate backstage tour, then don't miss out on this! Video by Jana Stüven
Levke (you may recognise her as moving woman Mandy or the paramedic) and Annika (the producer) show you the DIY props from The Man from Earth. Outro Music: Less Rake by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
Watch as our stage managers Romy and Larissa set up the stage with members of the cast and crew for the last show of our winter production The Man from Earth. Music: Less Rake by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
Trailer by Studio 17 http://studio-seventeen.de The Man from Earth by Jerome Bixby Show dates: 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 January 2019 1, 2, 3, 5 February 2019 7.30 p.m. Audimax (Von-Melle-Park 4) 12 € or 6€ concession 5€ per person for groups consisting of 10 or more people. Please book in advance via email up (at) uni-hamburg.de. Painting inspired by "Name unknown, Vincent van Gogh, 1885" After John Oldman suddenly gives up his job teaching history, prepares to move away and flees his goodbye party, John’s friends and colleagues demand an explanation. It’s not what they had expected: John claims to be 14,000 years old, having been alive since the Stone Age and moving every ten years to hide the fact that he doesn’t age. What begins as an interesting discussion devolves into a heated debate over John’s sanity. And when a surprise guest arrives, the struggle may shatter more than just friendships.
Meet our partner charity! Charity Now are extremely busy, but they managed to squeeze us in and grant us a short interview. More info: https://bit.ly/2Lgd55q ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ . . . . . This is a semi-improvised skit performed by some of the cast and crew of the University Players' winter production "The Man from Earth". Show dates : 21/ 24/ 25/ 26/ 27/ 28/ 29/ 31 January and 1/ 2/ 3/ 5 February. Please check out the link to find ticket information. Charity Now is not a real charity. Any similarity to existing charities is coincidental. We do not need your furniture donations, but Diakonie Hamburg has compiled a handy list if you do have things to donate. https://www.diakonie-hamburg.de/de/spenden/mit-sachspenden-helfen/ Happy Holidays!
“How are rehearsals coming on?”
So this is it, our summer's task has come to an end... After 9 shows in Hamburg (concluding last tuesday) we say goodbye to our saint, our voices and most importantly our sticks. But before all that, we celebrated the world premiere of Joan of Arc on the Isle of Man (as part of the Easter Festival of Full Length Plays). Perhaps you wonder *why* we shortened our rehearsal time so dramatically (with minus 1 week break after The Tempest), why we scraped all our pocket money together, used our holidays up or missed the first week of University to go there. And perhaps this short documentary of our time there will go some way to explain some of those questions.* *though strictly speaking the answer is simply that we're all mad here. ENJOY!!! With MADF - Manx Amateur Drama Federation Documentary made by Pauline Re and Marina Schünemann #isleofman #gaietytheatre #EFFLP #manx #theatre #joanofarc #sheisasaint #theyareinsane #InventiveUseOfInanimateObjects #festival #goodbye #seeyounextyear
Hey, remember that really cool trailer we shot and showed you recently? You know, the one that's also currently running in the Savoy and in the Abaton cinema in Hamburg? Well if you would like to stick your head behind the scenes and sneak a peek at how we did it, this is for you! We've got two more shows for you, 11th and 12th of June, 7.30 pm in the Audimax. Come and see it, promise you won't regret it! Video by Edgars Noskovs (our own personal video wizard)
This #FlashbackFriday is a sneak peak at Joan of Arc choreography. We have shows tomorrow (Saturday), Monday and Tuesday.
Get ready for tech run 🎉
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