Germanic Players
The Germanic Players
The Germanic Players is a theatre group which draws its members from the staff and students of German.
The Germanic Players were formed in 1990 and have several successful performances to their credit, including an adaptation of Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1991, and 1992 at the Adelaide Fringe Festival), Nestroy's Der Talisman (1992) and Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (1993).
In recent years the Germanic Players have devised their own productions: Wanderers Nachtlied, a mediaeval-style strolling players show (1994) and Kabarett Internet (1995), a multi-media performance which grappled with the moral and ethical issues of the Internet and of digital communication. In 1996 the group embarked on its first overseas tour, travelling to Germany in two international drama festivals with Kabarett Internet.
The most recent productions of the group have been Botho Strauß's Groß und Klein (1997), Thomas Brasch's Frauen.Krieg.Lustspiel (1998) and, in the centenary year of Bertolt Brecht's birth, the Brecht play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1998).
In 1999 the group performed the Max Frisch play Triptychon and in the year 2000 the group performed a Heiner Müller production die Hamletmaschine.