Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Leonberg
There has been an English Theater Club at our school since 2004. Usually, pupils from classes 8 to 13 are participating in the performances.
In January 2005, we performed our first play: our own adaptation of Oscar Wilde's CANTERVILLE GHOST.
In March 2006, we stage ARSENIC AND OLD LACE - best known through the film adaptation with Carry Grant acting the lead role of Mortimer Brewster. The group actually adapted the play a little, as some references in the play are rather outdated. In the original play, for instance, the two elderly ladies live together with their nephew Teddy, who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt. In our version, this nephew is called W., believing he is the current president of the United States and digging for oil in Texas (the cellar). We altered some more details and added some allusions to current US politics to make the play more amusing.
Franziska Schmid (Leiterin der englischen Theater-AG),24.10.2009
