Category: social issues
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Horses, an Alpine musical
Move over Sound of Music! Saddle up for ‘Horses,’ a provocative musical challenging norms, blending humor, irony, and Austrian idiosyncrasies. The excellent performers find themselves entangled in absurdities, sparking both laughter and reflection. With a diverse musical soundtrack, this unconventional production captivates with its blend of irony and Austrian humor.
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All the empty (drama) spaces
Especially in cities, there are often entire streets of abandoned ground floor stores and workshops that have not managed to assert themselves in our online consumer society or against large chains. Spaces that have been empty for years. What happens to such spaces in our cityscape? Well, sometimes drama happens there. In empty ground floor…
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Datafication Narratives
In the age of datafication, our world is increasingly mediated by algorithms and machine learning. These technologies have the power to shape our understanding of the world, but they also raise important questions about the nature of knowledge and truth. One lust run before the WERK X-Petersplatz theater closes for the summer and goes on…
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No place to hide
As summer takes hold, the WERK X-Petersplatz theater in Vienna debuts its latest production, “Hideaway – Love and Other Radicalities,” in collaboration with the visionary collective Bauer + Baum. It is a story of nostalgia for a long ago past, when we danced to records, allowed our skin to burn to a crisp in the…
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The courage to be wild at heart
The theatre at WERK X-Petersplatz just premiered “Im Herzen der Krähen” (In the hearts of crows) by Kaśka Bryla. I was again invited to photograph the general rehearsal, always a special treat for me to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of a play or performance, allowing me to capture a bit of the…
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Spring REawakens on stage
I´ve been a busy bee this week – must be that spring fever. At what has become an often-visited place for me, the theatre space at WERK X-Petersplatz, the latest play to premiere is “FrühlingsNEUerwachen” (Spring REawakening). It is a modified version of the famous original “Frühlingserwachen” (“Spring Awakening”) by the German playwright Frank Wedekind,…
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If HERSTORY makes you cringe…
… It should make you cringe, it should make you think. It did, for me. I guess I have been lucky, I thought when I saw the new play HERSTORY. NO MORE EXCUSES. NO MORE ABUSES at WERK X-Petersplatz, because I am not one of the many women who experience abuse from men on a…
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