The Berliner Grundtheater e.V. (BGT) was founded in Berlin in 1991 and is dedicated to producing a wide range of English-language plays, while integrating players of different nationalities. In addition to playing many seasons in Berlin, the company has also performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at Anglo-German Festivals in Germany, and is now based permanently in Luxembourg.
The BGT repertoire includes shows by authors as varied as Peter Shaffer, Anthony Minghella, Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare. The company also produces original scripts, such as adaptations of JANE EYRE (2010), LITTLE WOMEN (2014) and A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2016) and in January 2020 it premiered June Lowery's CHARLES DICKENS, THE BEST OF MEN; THE WORST OF MEN. The company is especially committed to promoting theatre for female actors and writers who are under-represented in the theatre and performance world. Shows like WOLVES ARE COMING FOR YOU (2019), PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (2018) DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH (2020), WE HAPPY FEW (2021) and most recently DI AND VIV AND ROSE (2022) , DAISY PULLS IT OFF (March 2024) & most recently AMARE (2025) all featured mostly - if not only - women actors as part of the company's policy to put women centre stage.
In addition to our policy of promoting plays by and about women, in recent years the company has also focused on promoting young performers and traineee or aspiring actors who are hoping to work in theatre. It is a co-sponsor of FEST (The FESTIVAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL THEATRE) which takes place every second year in Luxembourg (https://www.fest.lu/) and in 2019 started a summer programme giving trainee actors a contract to work on a show. Our recent production of Elo!ise Heger-Hedloy's new play I CAN'T TELL YOU ... BUT YOU FEEL IT, (April 2023) and THE GOOD GUY? by Ferelith Kingston continue these policies.
EU's NEXT
A dinner-theatre murder mystery
written by June Lowery
produced in association with LEAPA
12th & 13th June 2026
MELIA HOTEL LUXEMBOURG
1 Parc Dräi Eechelen, L- 1499 Luxembourg-Kirchberg
Tickets: MM-Friday@leapa.eu
MM-Saturday@leapa.eu
BGT Theatre is proud to present this year's "LEAPA MURDER MYSTERY DINNER". An EU press conference with a well-known female pioneer in space goes wrong when one of the delegates is murdered! Dark secrets are revealed... but can you guess WHODUNNIT??
AMARE
a new play by Hanne Siebens
Performed in February 2025 at the Drama Studio, Lycée Michel Rodange
“AMARE” is a new, experimental piece, by Hanne Siebens (final-year Drama Student at the ISL Luxembourg) which looks at the different types of love, as defined by the ancient Greeks. Through a series of short, but interlinked, sketches and monologues we are shown love as represented by a mix of relationships, both now and “then”. We are given short glimpses into the lives of married couples, children and parents, new young love … and love of those who have passed on.
But what happens when a love which looks joyous at the start becomes something dark and obsessive?
Behind it all stands the figure of Cupid both guiding and, seemingly, manipulating these relationships. But can even this “God of Love” control the most potent of human emotions without falling victim to its power?
he BGT Theatre Company is delighted to have the opportunity to present this new and experimental piece of work by a young and promising writer and actress. Helping to develop the text through a series of workshops during the summer of 2024, this is the latest BGT play to put WOMEN CENTRE STAGE and to encourage young, new talent.
With: Kim Birel, Sammy Braun, Bjørn Clasen, Sabrina Fernandez, Adriana Gospodinova, Rewa Jain, Josie Hatch, June Lowery, Gilles Fernandes Mota,
Cailin Reiff, Nina Ruggieri, Natacha Stevenin & Max Wagnitz
Directed by Tony Kingston & Hanne Siebens
SHOW PHOTOS COURTESY OF CHRONICLE.LU
Kim Birel as Cupid; Natacha Stevenin as Amelia
Josie Hatch as Willow
Nina Ruggieri as Jackie; Rewa Jain as Lina
With the kind assistance of the Lycée Michel Rodange, Luxembourg
Chronicle.lu review - February 6th 2025
Chronicle.lu interview with Hanne Siebens
Luxembourg Times preview (22nd January)
Radio Ara "Happy Hour" Interview with Hanne Siebens & Josie Hatch
RTL Today - interview with Melissa Dalton (11th January)
CHRONICLE. LU Preview December 2024
“The Good Guy?”
a new play by
Ferelith Kingston
Winner of the “Special Mention by the Jury” Prize at the Prix Laurence 2023
With Alessandro Stasi, Natacha Stevenin, Josie Hatch and Gilles Fernandes Mota
"INCEL: a person (usually a man) who regards himself or herself as being involuntarily celibate and typically expresses extreme resentment and hostility toward those who are sexually active" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
“The Good Guy?” is a new play that explores the impact that enforced gender norms have on young people growing up in the digital age. Online extremism, especially extreme misogyny, has been normalised to the extent that, for many young adults and teens, it has become an invisible background noise. The result a rise in online communities like "incels" (involuntary celibates) and the popularity of figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. “The Good Guy?” examines what the real-world impact of this pervasive online rhetoric is, through two voices.
Dylan and Katie are two 20-somethings whose stories are separate but mirror each other.
Dylan, lonely and socially awkward, gets company from the online society around a popular video game. He is led to believe he has found a support group and even friends. But, in reality, he is getting sucked into an almost cult-like belief that women are the root of all his problems.
Katie doesn’t get why feminism “had to be such a big deal”. She discovers “pop feminism” at a TEDTALK and starts to feel that she has a community around her; but as she learns about the reality of extreme misogyny and incel sub-culture she increasingly anxious, fearful and frustrated by the apathy shown by her friends and family.
Their stories unfold in a blend of sometimes comic, sometime tragic scenes and monologues. As the play develops the two stories become more heavily intertwined building towards a potentially explosive climax.
REVIEWS
FOR INTERVIEWS WITH THE COMPANY, SEE
CHRONICLE.LU Article by Otilia Dragan
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAST SEE:
BGT regular Laure Schreiner stars in this one-woman show about the writer of "Frankenstein"! February & March 2026
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