This winter semester, the directing students at the Thomas Bernhard Institute are developing workshop productions based on the examination of contemporary theatre texts. The content of the preparatory courses focussed on the experimental writing of authors.
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20.1.2024Directorial work with a focus on contemporary theatreDrama production
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22.6.2023Tartuffe
The author and musician PeterLicht has taken on Molière's scandalous play from 1664, "atomised and pulverised" it to make it readable in its satirical quality for our present. Director Nele Rosetz works out a common reading of the material with drama students. How does a group shape the behaviour of individuals? And what actually happens when an established context is shaken up by the emergence of a new character?
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15.3.2023Am Königsweg / A királyi úton / On the royal road by Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek's "Am Königsweg" is an examination of right-wing populism, Donald Trump's disastrous political practice and the helplessness of a society that cannot find an answer to the explosive spread of contempt for democracy and violence.
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20.1.2023
Directing projects on the theme of Classic On January 20 and 21, the Thomas Bernhard Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Scenography of the Mozarteum University, presented Philoktet by Heiner Müller, Gaia in a version by Till Ernecke and The Bacchae by Euripides, three directorial works on the theme of classical music at the Theater im KunstQuartier.
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14.4.2022
¡Los Bernarrrdá's! Based on "Bernarda Alba's House," Federico García Lorca's drama that has been performed most frequently around the world to this day, the 4th year Drama and Directing class, under the direction of Anja Herden, will deal in "¡Los Bernarrrdá's!" with being trapped, hysteria, fear of life, and the longing for freedom as a primal human drive, and will tell of people who are both victims and accomplices of their own oppression.
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17.9.2021Measure for MeasureDrama production