FIDENA – “Puppet Theatre of Nations” ist the title of an institute and a festival for international puppeteering in Bochum (Ruhr). This years festival takes place from August 29th to September 4th. There will be four different plays, some premieres and a play in English Llnguage. Anyway, you can visit nearly any of the plays because most of them don’t need any language. As an exception to the rule, one play affords knowledge of English language. It’s »Punch and Judy in Afghanistan – When East meets West, who will be laughing in the End?«
“Punch and Judy” are brother and sister to the German “Kasper und Grete” (Kasperletheater). This is connected to the headline of FIDENA in 2009: “Kasper reloaded” meaning “‘Punch and Judy’ reloaded”. This “Punch and Judy” will be performed by the Australian actor and puppeteer Neville Tranter who runs The Stuffed Puppet Theatre in the Netherlands. Well, I don’t want to summarize other pages, even if there seems to be only a German article on Wikipedia. On youTube, there are two videos from two different shows. One was part of the Ruhr Trienale. Here is the other video. It helps to understand what you will expect when you are thinking about visiting the shows on September 1st to 3rd. We already ordered tickets.
Neville Tranter and The Stuffed Puppet produce this Punch and Judy for the European Capital of Culture Linz’09. There will be a festival in November. The German premiere (not language but state of first show) will be in September in Bochum (European Capital of Culture 2010). We are going to spend a few days in Linz to learn about the Cultural Capital Project.
Yesterday I wrote about the “Very British” festival at the Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum shopping mall in Mülheim. The festival also contains at least two English movies per day at the Cinemaxx cinemas there. Here is a list of the movies in English language between July 2nd and 11th:
There’s no guarantee for the correctness of this information.
From July 2nd to 11th there will be a “Very British” Festival at the shopping mall of ‘Mülheim an der Ruhr‘, not far form the city limits of the city of Essen. The mall is called ‘Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum‘. There will be several events. I assume that most of them will take place on a stage, i.e.
There is a printed program which is also available as a PDF document here.
As I recognized at the Schauspielhaus Bochum yesterday, when we watched ‘A Tribute to Johnny Cash’ (see yesterday’s entry in this blog), there will be a theater festival soon which also includes some English plays. With different words: There will be three English plays at the Schauspielhaus soon.
From June 19th to July 1st the K15 festival will be host to some one productions of the Schauspielhaus crew but also for guests from other countries. The internet page of the K15 K15 festival doesn’t say which plays will be in English language. Maybe I just couldn’t find it? Anyway, I have got a program book of the festival. Here are the shows which are marked being in English language:
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