English Theatre Vienna in its 60ties

The Austrian director, Franz Schafranek, founded the English Theatre Vienna in the year 1963, assisted by his wife, Ruth Brinkmann (Photograph of both of them in the blog’s title), an American actress and a graduate of the Yale University School of Drama. The year 1976 was the turning point of their theatre venture as Tennessee Williams’s “The Red Devil Battery Sign”, under the playwright's direction, with Ruth Brinkmann in the leading female role, was presented. Another highlight was the 1991 world premiere of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize–Winning “Three Tall Women”, directed by the author. He dedicated it to the memory of Franz Schafranek who had died earlier in the same year. A different and a new experience of an English theatre play as a native English speaker, in a country of a different spoken language, by being exposed to its performance and experiencing it within the new cultural surroundings in which one finds oneself, by comparison to the already spectated ones in the UK, a challenging and an engaging one, perhaps?

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