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Address Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3, 37073 Göttingen, Germany Similar Deutsches Theater Göttingen, Georg‑Au Göttingen, Junges Theater Göttingen, Förderver Junges Theater e, CinemaxX Göttingen | ||
The Theater im OP (ThOP) is the university theater of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
It was founded by the theatre section of the German Department in 1984. Its main objective is to give training and practical experience in theater. The theater's name refers to its location, which is a former operating room of the university hospital. This structure produces a virtual theater-in-the-round (bench seats are on the two larger, opposing sides and additional seats are often added on a third side. The seats are above the stage area. The bench seats rise very steeply. This, combined with the bench structure, tend to give the theater an intimate atmosphere.
Casts and crews are predominantly students, but a sizable number of the participants are university staff and towns-people as well.