A small Shakespeare play- Besuch im englischen Theater

Das Sprachprofil des derzeitigen Q1-Jahrgangs besuchte am 16. Februar eine Inszenierung des Stückes „Ein Sommernachtstraum“ (bzw. „A Midsummernight’s Dream“) des berühmten Schriftstellers William Shakespeare, in dem es um eine verworrenen Liebesgeschichte in einem mystischen Wald geht. Im Unterricht haben wir uns anschließend damit beschäftigt, Rezensionen für dieses Stück bzw. die Inszenierung, die wir gesehen haben, zu verfassen.

A small Shakespeare play

On the 16th of February I went to the play „Midsummernight’s Dream“, written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare. The play took place in the Fabrik in Altona and I went there with my English class.

The play is about a woman who is in love with a man but is being forced by her father to marry another man. She decides to run away with her lover into the woods. After a lot of plot twists they can live happily ever after. The adaptation was played with only 6 actors and most of them acted very well, but they ran into the problem of not being able to show interactions between two characters because they were played by the same actors. They had to shorten the play a bit to make it fit the 90 minute frame. The sets and costumes were well chosen. There was a lot of singing and all of the actors did very well at it. The seats were placed a bit unfortunate, because you couldn’t see the whole stage from every seat. The next issue with the venue was that the actors didn’t have any microphones, which made them very hard to understand, because they were mumbling quite a bit.

I think it was a good representation of the play, regarding the circumstances, but I would not recommend it, because the circumstances hinder the play of reaching a good level.

von Bennet Krükemeier, Q1s