Theater im OP
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Address | 3 Käte-Hamburger-Weg Göttingen,LS 37073 Germany |
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Coordinates | 51°32′30″N9°56′24″E/ 51.5418°N 9.94°E |
Public transit | ![]() |
Owner | Georg-August-Universität |
Type | theater |
Seating type | wooden benches[2] |
Capacity | 120[1] |
Field size | 5 m × 9 m (16 ft × 30 ft) |
Field shape | rectangular |
Opened | 1984 |
Website | |
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TheTheater im OP,abbreviatedThOP(/tɔp/), is a community theater on the former premises of theGeorg-August-Universitätmedical center.[3][4] The stage is situated in the formeranatomical theater.[3][4][2][5] The theater's name refers to this,OPstanding forGerman:Operationssaal,lit. 'operating hall' (operating room,OR).
History
[edit]The theater was founded by the drama section of the German Department in 1984.[3][6] Its primary mission is to give opportunities to students for training and hands-on experience in a theater.[7]
The theater evolved to the largest student theater in Germany.[1] It has become one of the largest of its kind across Europe.[8]
Venue
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The former operating room has two opposing straight elongated stands, east and west. The rows of benchesrise very steeply,allowing an unobstructed view. The northern face of the building has a large window, that is usually covered with a black sheet of molton. The southern gallery may be used for additional seats. This arrangement then virtually creates athrust stage.
There is no glass dome separating observers from the scene. Unlike during an operation focused on one spot in the middle of the hall, actors can – and do – use the whole width and length of the stage. This, combined with the bench structure, tend to give the theater an intimate atmosphere.[4]
A separate staircase for the audience has been attached to the building's southwest. While the stage level can be reached via an elevator, the gallery can not. Nonetheless, the crew is determined to find means allowing everyone to attend shows.[9]
A dressing room, a make-up room and a workshop, beside other facilities, are located laterally to the stage, underneath the stands and gallery. Below the main stage, the formerER's operating room serves theThOPas a rehearsal stage.[7] Some productions used it as a stage for public audience, too.[7][4][10] However, the formerbarrel vault-like operating room is limited to 30 persons.[4] Yet it is accessible by wheelchair via ramps, as it is slightly below street level.
Properties and costumes are stored in the attic of an adjacent building, if they are not in use in current or upcoming productions.
From October 2014 till March 2016 a damage of the roof forced theThOPto use other irregular venues.[11] Unfortunately this coincided with the 30-year anniversary of the theater.[12][11] Alternative venues were for example a (secondary) stage at the city theaterDeutsches Theater,as well as the stage of theJunges Theater,but also non-theater surroundings such as the assembly hall at the former grounds of the local private university, now also property of the Georg-August-university, and theThOP's own rehearsal stage the former ER's OR.[7][10]
In the course of building repairs a ventilation system has been built in into theThOP's own attic. It helps managing excess heat emitted by a full house and lighting.
Operations
[edit]Productions are shown en suite. One ensemble "moves in" into theThOP,sets up the stage setting and performs final rehearsals, and then has public performances usually over the course of two weeks, until they "move out" again yielding the stage to the next ensemble. This cycle allows up to 12 productions to premiere per year,[5]totaling about 130 shows.[13]
Casts and crews are predominantly students, but a sizable number of the participants are university staff and towns-people as well.[3] Enrolled university students can obtain credits in some courses of studies.[3]
Directors have to go through a vetting process, by being anAssistant Directorfor one production at theThOPfirst. The remaining tasks have more or less formal requirements, but there is a culture of passing forward skills and knowledge: SeniorThOPaffiliates instruct novices, who themselves may eventually become seniorThOPmembers too.
There is only one position funded by the department, accompanied by some (student) assistants.[3][1] All participants are otherwise volunteers.[3][1] The admission pricing policy is non-profit, nonetheless subsidies and sponsoring[14]support the budget.[4][2] Enrolled students of theGeorg-August-Universitätcan attend shows for a compulsory flatrate.[9][15][2] A bar serving bottled drinks belongs to the theater's services.
Most plays are in German. The "English drama workshop" stages a play in English once per year.[16] There have been productions incorporating German sign language, too.
There is no limit to the range of genres. Classical plays as well as contemporary dramas are shown.[1] Since 2004 the theater also hosts a budding dramatists competition.[17][18] The eventually winning play is guaranteed to have its world premiere in theThOP.[19][18]
title | premiere | notes |
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Andorra | September 13, 2019 | |
Antigone | May 15, 2007 | |
Age of Cannibals | December 4, 2015 | |
Arsenic and Old Lace | April 2012 | in English |
August: Osage County | June 26, 2019 | |
Baal | July 10, 2008 | |
Beautiful Thing | July 12, 2017 | |
Bent | October 6, 2017 | |
Boeing-Boeing | September 2016 | |
The Brothers Lionheart | January 16, 2016 | |
A Clockwork Orange | September 2009 | |
Closer | September 16, 2015 | |
The Comedy of Errors | January 11, 2008 | |
The Country Wife | May 2014 | in English |
Death and the Maiden | March 6, 2015 | |
Dream Story | January 17, 2020 | |
Educating Rita | August 18, 2007 | |
8 Women | November 2013 | |
The Fire Raisers | October 2011 | |
Four Rooms | June 10, 2011 | in English |
Frau Müller muss weg! | October 28, 2017 | |
Ghosts | July 16, 2014 | |
Heart of Stone | November 28, 2012 | |
Hedda Gabler | November 3, 2007 | |
Herr Lehmann | May 6, 2016 | |
An Ideal Husband | August 2010 | |
The Imaginary Invalid | January 2010 | |
An Inspector Calls | March 12, 2014 | |
Jake's Women | July 5, 2016 | |
Killer Joe | September 8, 2017 | |
Krabat | December 4, 2008 | |
Ladies Night | January 11, 2014 | |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses | April 29, 2010 | |
Lysistrata | June 9, 2017 | musical adaptation |
The Maids | December 4, 2007 | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | June 2013 | in English |
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy | February 14, 2009 | |
Mr. Marmalade | September 5, 2014 | |
A Murder Is Announced | March 1, 2007 | |
1984 | May 2, 2008 | in English |
Pictures at an Exhibition | July 2009 | |
The Pillowman | May 31, 2019 | |
Possible Worlds | February 7, 2015 | |
Pygmalion | April 21, 2007 | in English |
A Report to an Academy | April 15, 2016 | |
Romeo and Juliet | May 12, 2017 | modern adaptation |
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | December 3, 2010 | |
The Seagull | January 2012 | |
Shoppen | November 4, 2016 | |
Survivor | January 17, 2013 | own dramatization |
The Sound of Music | June 8, 2016 | in English |
The Taming of the Shrew | May 20, 2009 | in English |
Tango | April 18, 2009 | |
Tartuffe | January 2011 | |
The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas | December 6, 2019 | |
Vernon God Little | February 16, 2013 | |
We're No Angels | December 2009 | |
What the Butler Saw | April 5, 2017 | in English |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | February 2010 |
Due to thecoronavirus pandemicthe theater temporarily shut down its operations mid March 2020, like virtually all theaters in Germany. All productions were put on hold and will be shown as soon as rehearsals become possible again. Nonetheless,ThOP-related classes were still held, although predominately via distance teaching.
References
[edit]- ^abcdeEilts, Hilke; Schuette, Susann (May 4, 2011)."Hinter den Kulissen des ThOP"[behind the scenes of the ThOP].Litlog(in German).RetrievedApril 26,2019.
- ^abcd"Das ThOP: Theater spielen, wo mal operiert wurde"[The ThOR: Acting where once [people underwent] surgery].Norddeutscher Rundfunk(in German). November 28, 2019.RetrievedAugust 14,2020.
- ^abcdefg"Das ThOP - unsere FAQ"[The ThOP – our FAQ].Theater im OP(in German).RetrievedApril 26,2019.
- ^abcdefSchäfer, Günter (September 17, 2019)."Theater im OP"[theater in the OR].goettinger stadtinfo(in German).RetrievedAugust 14,2020.
- ^ab"ThOP Theater im OP"[ThOP theater in the OR].Wiki-Göttingen(in German). October 26, 2009.RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^"Theaterspielen im Schau-Operationssaal der Chirurgen"[Playing theater in the surgeons' operating theater].Göttinger Tageblatt(in German). July 11, 2011.RetrievedApril 26,2019.
- ^abcdAnders, René (April 13, 2016)."Ende einer dramatischen Reise"[End of an odyssey].Litlog(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^Krutzinna, Leonie (March 27, 2013)."Aktenzeichen EHP 054 ungelöst"[Case number EHP 054… unsolved].nacht kritik(in German).RetrievedApril 26,2019.
- ^ab"karten"[tickets].Theater im OP(in German).RetrievedApril 26,2019.
- ^ab"Fundus"[prop room].Theater im OP(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^ab"Theater im OP verlagert Spielbetrieb wegen sanierungsbedürftigen Dachs"[Theater in the OR moves productions due to roof in need of repair].Göttinger Tageblatt(in German). October 3, 2014.RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^"thop-less"[(life) without ThOP].Theater im OP(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^Lendt, Gundula (March 31, 2017)."Göttingen - Was mich bewegt, erschüttert, nervt..."[Göttingen – What strikes, shocks, annoys me,…].Göttingen(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^"Partner/Förderer"[partners/sponsors].Theater im OP(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^"Kultur-Semesterticket"[culture semester ticket].Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß(in German).RetrievedApril 26,2019.
- ^"Arts and Entertainment in Göttingen".Max Planck Institute.RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^"dramatiker*innenwettbewerb"[dramatists-star-female competition].Theater im OP(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^ab"Theater im OP (ThOP)"[theater in the OR (ThOR)].Autorenwelt(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
- ^Hausmann, Lisa (April 11, 2019)."Theaterstücke über die Vor- und Nachteile der Digitalisierung"[plays about advantages and disadvantages of the digital revolution].Göttinger Tageblatt(in German).RetrievedApril 28,2019.
External links
[edit]- Official website
(in German)
- Theater im OPonFacebook(in German)
- Theater im OPonX(in German)
- Theater im OP's channelonVimeo(in German)
- Theater im OP's channelonYouTube(in German)