the fringe’s history 1996the fringe’s history 1996the fringe’s history 1996the fringe’s history 1996----2015201520152015 The story of the then nameless English Drama began in summer 1996, when a year 10 class put some one act plays by Alan Ayckbourn on the stage – just for fun and only for their class mates to watch. No photos have survived. But this acting during English lessons incited 18 students to found a drama group which later took the name “the fringe”, although most members refer to it just as “EDG”. What follows here is a list of all the plays staged and produced with one or two memorable photos to give you an impression of the long production history this group has.

1997 Agatha Christie’s The Hollow

1998 Richard B. Sheridan’s The Rivals

1999 Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

2000 William Shakespeare’s A Midsummernight’s Dream

2001 Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution

2002 Mary Chase’s Harvey

2002 Joy’s Pearls (adapted from the English book Green Line)

2003 Richard, too (adapted from William Shakespeare’s King Richard the Second)

2004 Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband

2005 William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (in German in 25 minutes)

2005 William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

2006 Agatha Christie’s The Hollow

2007 Sidney Grundy’s The New Woman

2007 Richard Parson’s Dead End

2008 William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2009 Bram Stoker’s Dracula – the blood is the life

2010 Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters

2010 Perfidia Lane (adapted from Giles Cooper’s Everything in the garden)

2011 Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes – The 100% Solution

2011 A. A. Milne’s The Ugly Duckling

2012 George S. Kaufman’s and Moss Hart’s The Man Who Came To Dinner

2012 William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (in English in 40 minutes)

2013 William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the ShrewS

2013 Going Wilde (adapted from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest)

2014 Noel Coward’s Relative Values

2014 Absolutely Doable (workshop theatre at the Schultheatertage)

2015 Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

To be continued …