maniACTs - History

a history of plays played
summer 09	Larry Shue's The Nerd
winter 08/09	Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing
summer 08	Arthur Miller's The Crucible
summer 07	Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things
winter 06	Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy
summer 06	Ronald Harword's Taking Sides (rerun) Patrick Marber's Closer
winter 05/06	Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy
summer 05	Ronald Harword's Taking Sides The Night of the Unwanted Visitors including: Christopher Durang Wanda's Visit
winter 04/05	Alan Ayckbourn Absurd Person Singular
summer 04	John Osborne Look Back In Anger Samuel Woodworth The Forest Rose Peter Shaffer Black Comedy
winter 03/04	William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
summer 03	Larry Shue The Foreigner (rerun) The maniACTs present the "Gender-Benders" with: Eve Ensler / Gloria Steinem The Vagina Monologues / If Men Could Menstruate
winter 02/03	Brian Friel The Freedom Of The City Aristophanes Lysistrata (German reading)
summer 02	David Hare The Blue Room
winter 01/02	Larry Shue The Foreigner Holworthy Hall & Robert Middlemass The Valiant
summer 01	Timberlake Wertenbaker Our Country's Good
winter 00/01	Tom Stoppard Arcadia Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
summer 00	William Shakespeare As You Like It
winter 99/00	Arthur Miller The Crucible
summer 99	William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
winter 98/99	Tom Stoppard The Real Inspector Hound
summer 98	Edward Albee The Zoo Story
winter 97/98	Christopher Hampton Dangerous Liaisons
summer 97	Tony Kushner Angels in America A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Part I: Millennium Approaches
winter 96/97	Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
summer 96	Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
winter 95/96	Woody Allen Bullets Over Broadway (reprise at Freiburg Theaterfestival, summer 96)
summer 95	Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
winter 94/95	The Theater of the Absurd: Two One-Act Plays Harold Pinter, The Lover James Saunders, Slight Exit
summer 94	William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
winter 93/94	Michael Frayn Noises Off
summer 93	Edward Bond The Sea
winter 92/93	William Shakespeare Twelfth Night or What You Will
summer 92	Caryl Churchill Cloud Nine
winter 91/92	Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
summer 91	Edward Albee The Lady from Dubuque
winter 90/91	Peter Shaffer Black Comedy
summer 90	William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

before the maniACTs, there was an English department drama group who did the following plays:
winter 89/90	Sophie Treadwell Machinal
summer 89	Neil Simon California Suite
winter 88/89	Sam Shepard A Lie of the Mind
summer 88	Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution
winter 87/88	Thornton Wilder Our Town
summer 87	Tom Stoppard The Real Inspector Hound
winter 86/87	Helen Jerome Pride and Prejudice
summer 86	Giles Cooper Everything in the Garden
winter 85/86	Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
summer 85	M. Wood Victories
winter 84/85	Thornton Wilder The Skin of Our Teeth
summer 84	Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker
winter 83/84	Arthur Miller The Crucible
summer 83	Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

before this, there was a group called "Studiob�hne" who reportedly produced the following shows:
1979	William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
1978	George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
1976	William Shakespeare Hamlet
1975	Arthur Miller The Crucible
1974	George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
1973	William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

Before this, many other plays were produced in the English department. Unfortunately, our records don't go back any further. But legend has it that in the 1940's and 50's, our group was headed by a professor who had studied drama with Thornton Wilder . . . We believe that our roots lie somewhere in the late 16th century in Stratford, England, where Albert Ludwig, shortly before founding our university, was a student of what's-his-name. That's not even a rumor, though. Call it an assumption. Not a rumor but honest-to-god truth: In the 1970's, a now well-known German author headed the English drama group.


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a history of plays played