Adam Nümm
.. with a "Midsummer Night's Dream." A nice start for a text, but if it is to go here about the origins of the Cologne Youth Theatre Ensemble YAA! (Young acting Accomplices) to describe the late nineties, not quite the truth. Because, to be exact, it started earlier, almost two years and countless, sweaty, difficult, joyful and above all, before fluctuating hours.
begin - we met twice a week for three hours of play, experimentation, experience - we were usually not more than five. We, that was a few kids with fun the theater and especially Thomas Ulrich - the one who was then as now, tirelessly, if it was to move young people to play us. But more about Thomas and his huge, enriching work in another text.
the foundation of the group formed at that time three young people, Thomas "took" after his directorial work in child Stunksitzung from there. But soon should change this group, grow, shrink again - always there were new faces, new relationships and opportunities with each other and ultimately was just maybe the best thing that could happen: by the constant and for all the exciting new constellation found in the group a special intensity the working attitude. once again, someone new was there, so this was to show the other drive, what you were doing, that there was to discover something and that this was a special place. Sure must be said that this had not been so, if not the core of the group held the pole for months, if something was mau again, because there were hard times. Yet well I remember, as we have Ebertplatz in the rooms of that time living there, "Arturo" acting school, and rehearsed again and again only three or four of us were. What we should not stop them from trying anyway, or at least going to the movies together.
About one to two years elapsed before the Thomas concrete idea of the piece was conceived. At this time, the dynamics of the group was far different: about eight Spielwütigen, young people - some ambitious, and ambitious, while others with less serious in the matter, but the more devout in relation to group together - were ready, the first joint project to be addressed:
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. (To be continued ..)
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