The AnglistenTheater of the University of Augsburg is an amateur student theatre group that has performed plays in English since 1980. It was founded by Rudolf Beck who produced and directed plays between 1981 and 1990. He was succeeded by Ute Legner and Roger Evans, who directed their first play, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, in 1988. Ute Legner was in charge of the AnglistenTheater from 1991 to 2006. During her time more than 15 contemporary plays were shown at the University and at the Abraxas theatre, many of them for the first time on a German stage. After an interval of 6 years, Rudolf Beck revived the AnglistenTheater in 2012 with Simon Stephens’ One Minute.

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Plays produced since 1981, directed by Rudolf Beck (RB), Ute Legner (UL), Roger Evans (RE), Kathrin Bayer (KB), Signe Sturup-Hackenberg (SH)
[GP = German Premiere; WP = World Premiere]

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1980??????? AnglistenTheater set up by Rudolf Beck in autumn 1980

1981??????? Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (RB)

1982??????? William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (RB)

1983??????? Arthur Miller, The Crucible (RB)

1984??????? William Wycherley, The Country Wife (RB)

1985??????? William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (RB)

1986??????? Brendan Behan, The Hostage? (RB)

1987??????? William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale? (RB)

1988??????? David Hare, Teeth'n'Smiles? (RB)

1988??????? Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (UL, RE)

1989??????? Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (RB)

1989??????? Jim Neu, Andrew Horn, The Big Blue (WP; adapt. dir. UL, RE)

1989??????? Jane Thornton, Handle With Care (GP ; UL)

1989??????? Geoff Lynam, Robbie and Steve (GP; RE)

1990??????? William Shakespeare, Macbeth (RB)

1990??????? Jon Gaunt, Hooligans (GP; UL)

1990??????? Katie Buchanan, Trevelyan Wright, Cut The Girls Talk!?This Is War (GP; UL, RE)

1991??????? Anglistentheater, Playing For Time ... Almost A Musical (WP; UL, RE)

1991??????? Richard Cameron, Can't Stand Up For Falling?Down (GP; UL, RE)

1991??????? Eric Prince, Wildsea Wildsea (GP; UL)

1992??????? Claire Luckham, Trafford Tanzi (GP; UL)

1993??????? Lance Flynn, The Dorm (GP; UL)

1993-4??? John Binnie, A Little Older (GP; UL)

1995??????? David McGillivray, Walter Zerlin jr., They Came From Mars (adapt. AnglTh; GP; UL)

1996??????? Robert Hamilton, Giovanni's Women (GP; UL)

1997??????? Gordon Steel, Like A Virgin (GP; UL)

1998??????? John Godber, Bouncers (GP; UL)????????

1999??????? Tim Fountain, Morning Has Broken (GP; UL)

2000??????? John Godber, Bouncers 2000,The New Edition (adapt.? UL; GP; UL)

2003??????? William Mastrosimone, Extremities (UL)

2006??????? Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen, The Exonerated (GP; UL)

2012??????? Simon Stephens, One Minute (RB)

2013??????? Harold Pinter, Ashes to Ashes (RB)

2014??????? John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (RB)

2014??????? Martin Crimp, The Country (RB)

2015??????? Two Victorian Farces: John Maddison Morton, Box and Cox; Joseph Stirling Coyne, How to Settle Accounts with Your Laundress (RB)

2015??????? Simon Stephens, Pornography (RB)

2016??????? Pinter Double Bill: Harold Pinter, Night School and The Lover (RB)

2016??????? Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis (RB)

2017??????? Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape (RB)

2017??????? Andrew Bovell, Speaking in Tongues (RB)

2017??????? Diane Samuels, Kindertransport (RB)

2018??????? Ben Power, Medea (after Euripides; RB)

2018??????? Amanda Whittington, The Thrill of Love (GP; RB)

2019 ?????? Nick Payne, Electra (after Sophocles; GP; RB)

2022 ? ? ?? Harold Pinter, Three Short Plays: Landscape; Night; Family Voices (RB, KB)

2022??????? Three Studies in Cruelty: Harold Pinter, Mountain Language; Samuel Beckett, What Where; Samuel Beckett, Catastrophe (RB)

2023??????? Ellen McLaughlin, The Trojan Women (after Euripides; GP; RB, SH)

2024??????? Caryl Churchill, Escaped Alone; Here We Go (RB, SH, KB)