Tag: WERK X
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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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Multiple Dianas at WERK X-Petersplatz
My latest visit to WERK X-Petersplatz took me to the final rehearsal of the whirlwind contemporary play “What did you do when Lady Di died” by Katharina Kummer – a “chorus of princesses”, as one tagline refers to it. The play engages with a range of different themes and ideas, including the life and legacy…
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Bibi Sara Kali: Cultural identities at WERK X-Petersplatz
What if you never knew your cultural identity? If you were not aware of your heritage, because, somehow, your mother “forgot” to mention it to you? And why? Those are the questions asked in this highly engaging and topical play “Bibi Sara Kali” by Ibrahim Amir and Simonida Selimović. I was lucky enough to be…
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The State on Trial: Asylum Tribunal
All things are well with asylum processes and rights in my home country, are they not? This, at any rate, is often the official government line. Of course it all depends whose side you are on. The current performances by Theaterkollektiv Hybrid on Vienna´s Judenplatz in cooperation with Werk X-Petersplatz, pitch the side of the…
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Broken-hearted boogie: Trümmerherz
A play that moves. At first glance, a simple story, yet after a while, I realised, not so simple after all. The themes of Bernhard Bilek’s play “Trümmerherz” are age-old: love, jealousy, friendship, heartache, and also: sexual attraction, longing, deception, violence, gender, the spoils of war, society. There are so many layers in this story…
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