The AnglistenTheater Summer Production
Jez Butterworth: The River
This summer, the AnglistenTheater of the University of Augsburg is staging – to our knowledge the first time in Germany – British playwright Jez Butterworth’s play The River. Performances are scheduled for June 25th, 27th and 29th 2024, at 8 p.m. in Hörsaal II (C Building of the University). Tickets at €10 or €5 (concessions) are available from Tuesday June 11th at Taschenbuchladen Krüger (near Königsplatz), or can be reserved via a link on the AnglistenTheater’s website. The river and water are leitmotifs that recur throughout the play: we hear female voices singing Yeats‘ “Song of Wandering Aengus“, in which an unhappy lover laments the loss of his beloved – actually a trout he had caught, mysteriously metamorphosed into a beautiful girl; Ted Hughes’ poem “After Moonless Midnight” (taken from his book of poems The River) is read out, in which a fisherman suddenly finds himself face to face with his prey; the woman, we learn, is fascinated by Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse. Jez Butterworth is one of the best-known contemporary British playwrights. His stage plays include Mojo (1995), The Night Heron (2002) and Winterling (2006), both of which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, Parlour Song (2009), which opened in New York in 2008; and the multi award-winning comedy, Jerusalem (2009), starring Mark Rylance as Johnny Byron. The Ferryman won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Play. -- Butterworth’s screenwriting credits include Birthday Girl (2001), starring Nicole Kidman; he co-wrote the James Bond film Spectre, (2015). The AnglistenTheater is an amateur student theatre group at the University of Augsburg, who have performed plays in English since 1980. The group was founded by Rudolf Beck, at the time a lecturer in English literature. Since then, the group has staged about 50 plays by more than 40 authors. Currently about 20 students participate in the AnglistenTheater’s summer production, on stage and off-stage – acting, or involved in set construction, light and sound, make-up, costumes, and marketing. Dates: Tue 25th, Thur 27th, Sat 29th June 2024, 8:00 p.m. Venue: Hörsaal II (Gebäude C, Großes Hörsaalzentrum), Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg (5 minutes from the tram stop “University“) Tickets: 10 € / 5 € (concessions). Tickets are on sale from Tue 11th, at Taschenbuchladen Krüger (Färbergäßchen 1, near Königsplatz), or can be reserved by accessing a link on the AnglistenTheater website. External Links (Jez Butterworth): https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/jez-butterworth; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jez_Butterworth Website AnglistenTheater: https://uni-a.de/to/anglistentheater Contact: Rudolf Beck, AnglistenTheater, anglistentheater@philhist.uni-augsburg.de This amateur production is presented by special arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
A man has invited a woman to join him for a few days at his fishing hut. On the night of the new moon, the nearby river teems with sea trout, promising a big and easy catch. However, after a while, strange things begin to happen and reality seems to go awry. Who is the woman with the red dress? What’s the secret of the old hatbox hidden away under the bed in the bedroom? Whose are the earrings that turn up in the soap dish in the shower, and whose is the red dress in the wardrobe? Do the characters always tell the truth? And finally: how many women has the man invited to his hut in the course of time? And how many of them has he actually been in love with?
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