Acht machen Theater

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Acht machen Theater (AmT) is an amateur theatre group from the Hanover region and Marklohe, Lower Saxony, Germany. It was formed in 1997 by a group of students of German studies and stages comedies as well as serious plays at changing venues in the city and region of Hanover.

History

According to the group's own account, the idea of putting on a play came up among students of German literature on an evening in 1997; about half a year later they performed a light comedy. After the first production only half of the original cast remained, and new players were recruited from the universities of Hanover. With Noises Off the group built a complete stage set for the first time, and Bunbury was its first costume play. In 2002 it staged its own adaptation of the film Ein Winternachtstraum, translated from the English screenplay by a member. From 2003, beginning with George Tabori's Mein Kampf, it also took on serious plays, and in 2005 smaller casts formed side projects alongside the main production. The group registered as an association at the beginning of 2004.

For its tenth anniversary the group organised the first Hannoversches Amateurtheaterfestival under the motto "Kultur für Alle", held at the Freizeitheim Lister Turm from 21 September 2007. Eight groups and a clown gave ten performances, and professionals ran workshops and post-performance discussions; the festival had about 400 spectators. The group's most recent documented production was Boeing, Boeing in January 2020.

Repertoire

The early productions were mainly comedies and crime parodies; since 2003 the group has also performed dramas by authors such as Tabori, Sartre, Albee and Lutz Hübner.

Productions

Year	Title	Author	Notes
1998	Heiraten ist immer ein Risiko	Saul O'Hara
1999	See how they run – Guck mal wie die rennen	Philip King	See How They Run
2000	Noises Off – Der nackte Wahnsinn	Michael Frayn	Noises Off
2000	Bunbury – oder Ernst sein ist wichtig	Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest
2001	Verschleierter Horizont	Agatha Christie	Murder on the Nile
2002	Ein Winternachtstraum	after Kenneth Branagh	stage adaptation of the film In the Bleak Midwinter
2003	Ein Sommernachtstraum	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream
2003	Mein Kampf	George Tabori	project
2004	Tote ohne Begräbnis	Jean-Paul Sartre
2005	Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	project; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2005	Der Weg	Stevan Glavicki	project
2006	Kein Trinkwasser!	Woody Allen	Don't Drink the Water
2007	Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft	Beth Henley	Crimes of the Heart; premiere at the Hannoversches Amateurtheaterfestival
2008	Goldberg-Variationen	George Tabori	revived 2010
2012	Gretchen 89ff.	Lutz Hübner
2012	Alarm! (Schlachtengetümmel)	Michael Frayn
2016	Scotland Road	Jeffrey Hatcher	revived 2017
2019	Rakows Dom	Lorenz Langegger
2020	Boeing, Boeing	Marc Camoletti	Boeing-Boeing; premiere at the Stadtteilzentrum Lister Turm, 18 January 2020

Organisation

The group has no permanent stage; its productions have been shown at venues such as the Stadtteilzentrum Lister Turm in Hanover, the Haus der Kirche in Kleinburgwedel and the Spielraum in Stuhr.