Jugendtheater Wellen

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Jugendtheater Wellen is an amateur youth theatre group in Wellen on the Moselle, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Each year during Advent it stages a well-known fairy tale for audiences of all ages.

History

According to the group's own account, it began when two mothers rehearsed a fairy-tale play with five girls in the village and performed it for the children of the local kindergarten. At the kindergarten's suggestion the play was repeated for a wider audience. Over the following years the cast grew from five to twelve children, with boys joining the girls, the audience from about 100 to 600 spectators and the run from two to seven performances. The group celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2019, which dates its beginnings to 2004; the proceeds of that year's two performance weekends were announced as a donation to a charitable cause.

Repertoire

The group performs adaptations of well-known fairy tales, written and directed by its director, which may depart from the originals. Productions listed by the group include Hänsel und Gretel, Aschenputtel, Der kleine Muck (staged twice), Schneewittchen, Der Zauberer von Oz, Der Räuber Hotzenplotz, Der Froschkönig, Frau Holle and Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein. Its website also showed a production of Rudolf mit der roten Nase. Aschenputtel was performed in 2018. In November 2019 the group staged Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge, freely adapted from the Brothers Grimm, over two weekends.