the fringe history - GMG...
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the fringe’s history 1996 the fringe’s history 1996 the fringe’s history 1996 the fringe’s history 1996-2015 2015 2015 2015 The story of the then nameless English Drama began in summer 1996, when a year 10 class put some one act plays by Alan Ayckbourn on the stage – just for fun and only for their class mates to watch. No photos have survived. But this acting during English lessons incited 18 students to found a drama group which later took the name “the fringe”, although most members refer to it just as “EDG”. What follows here is a list of all the plays staged and produced with one or two memorable photos to give you an impression of the long production history this group has. 1997 Agatha Christie’s The Hollow 1998 Richard B. Sheridan’s The Rivals 1999 Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
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the fringe’s history 1996the fringe’s history 1996the fringe’s history 1996the fringe’s history 1996----2015201520152015 The story of the then nameless English Drama began in summer 1996, when a year 10 class put some one act plays by Alan Ayckbourn on the stage – just for fun and only for their class mates to watch. No photos have survived. But this acting during English lessons incited 18 students to found a drama group which later took the name “the fringe”, although most members refer to it just as “EDG”. What follows here is a list of all the plays staged and produced with one or two memorable photos to give you an impression of the long production history this group has.
1997 Agatha Christie’s The Hollow
1998 Richard B. Sheridan’s The Rivals
1999 Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
2000 William Shakespeare’s A Midsummernight’s Dream
2001 Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution
2002 Mary Chase’s Harvey
2002 Joy’s Pearls (adapted from the English book Green Line)
2003 Richard, too (adapted from William Shakespeare’s King Richard the Second)
2004 Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband
2005 William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (in German in 25 minutes)
2005 William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
2006 Agatha Christie’s The Hollow
2007 Sidney Grundy’s The New Woman
2007 Richard Parson’s Dead End
2008 William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2009 Bram Stoker’s Dracula – the blood is the life
2010 Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
2010 Perfidia Lane (adapted from Giles Cooper’s Everything in the garden)
2011 Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes – The 100% Solution
2011 A. A. Milne’s The Ugly Duckling
2012 George S. Kaufman’s and Moss Hart’s The Man Who Came To Dinner
2012 William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (in English in 40 minutes)
2013 William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the ShrewS
2013 Going Wilde (adapted from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest)
2014 Noel Coward’s Relative Values
2014 Absolutely Doable (workshop theatre at the Schultheatertage)
2015 Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
To be continued …
