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“We had really made a great game plan, which was largely ready in January 2020 and we just started writing the season book when we had to gradually realize that we could not implement it like that,” said Kay Voges in Interview APA, “It was naive to believe that we could handle that in January 2021. For example, to perform a 4.5 hour opera with a huge silverware. Then we made a new plan and now we have to see what we can get out of this. “
VOges sees the initial production “Der Raum” on January 8th as a “production that manages without actors and without language. A hymn to the place of longing for the theater and the stage. This stage poem is completely quarantined. All you need is a sound engineer, a lighting engineer, and a movie theater. To put it bluntly: tonight I might even do without an audience. That would be a narrative of how theaters are doing right now. That they still have an even empty life. I think it will be a nice meditation for the opening of the new house. “
New premises in the “dark room”
In addition to the main building, where concerts will also be held, the “dark room” under the roof will also function as a future venue, only one production is planned at the Volx Margareten, while a total of four district productions are in the Program. “I cordially invite you to a joint search, through current or recently read dramaturgy, to cross the border between the performing and visual arts, musical and choreographic productions, discursive and participatory formats, an enjoyable examination of our time”, Kay Voges says in the press release.
After “Der Raum” there is a series of premieres. The Rimini Protokoll collective kicks off with “Black Box. Ghost theater for one person ”on January 9, during which a spectator (equipped with headphones) is sent on tour every five minutes. The next day follows the Vienna premiere of Kay Voges’ Dortmund production of “Theatermacher” from 2018.
On January 14, Chekhov’s adaptation of Susanne Kennedy, “Drei Schwestern,” is on the agenda, whose guest appearance with “Ultraworld” at this year’s Wiener Festwochen had to be canceled due to travel restrictions. long-term collaboration. Like Kennedy’s production, Florentina Holzinger’s “Etude for an Emergency”, screened for May (and adapted for Vienna), comes from the Münchner Kammerspiele.
World premiere of the new in-house author
The first performance is titled “1. Breaking the cross or killing all the idiots ”- The text is the first part of a multi-part work by new in-house author Lydia Haider, who won the audience award at the Bachmann reading competition in the summer and whose work“ Am Ball ”will premiere in December at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna. The staging is carried out by Artistic Director Voges, the premiere is on January 16.
A challenge, as he admits: “It’s a piece that just can’t be played depending on the directions on the stage. Lydia Haider is very accommodating in our efforts to discover how the impossible theater can be made possible, ”Voges says in an APA interview. With “Bliss. Mozart’s final aria from The Marriage of Figaro as a twelve-hour opera by Ragnar Kjartansson on the HD broadcast concludes on January 17, the turbulent opening week.
Set with new members
This season’s new ensemble is made up of 20 actors (and therefore five more than Anna Badora’s), most of whom are new to the Viennese audience: among them Nick Romeo Reiman, a face known mainly from films. (including “Turkish for Beginners”), Julia Franz Richter recently worked at the Schauspielhaus Graz, Samouil Stoyanov at the Münchener Kammerspiele, but also worked for television in “Der Alte” or “Soko München”.
Anna Rieser, an actress from the Landestheater Linz, who received the Nestroy award for “best descendant” in 2019, arrives in Vienna. Voges brought in seven actors from Dortmund. With Claudia Sabitzer, Evi Kehrstephan, Stefan Suske and Günther Wiederschwinger, four old friends will remain in the house, Doris Weiner will only be there this year. For the next season, Voges hopes to add four new members of the group.
Two Vienna premieres in “Black Box”
Visual artist and neo opera director Jonathan Meese delivers the most convoluted title in March with “KAMPF LOLITA (EVOLUTION IS CHEF) or LOLITADZIO (Zardoz flies again!) OR LOLITA DE LARGE (The 3rd Baby) or DIE BARBARENLOLITAS (Fight for Art) or DR ERZLOLITA DE LOLITA (ZARDOZ LIVES) or DIE ZARDOZLOLITAS (Don’t be afraid) ”, a“ universal premiere. ”“ We can prepare for something, ”promises Voges.
Next year, the Volx / Margareten will only be used for one new production: on January 15, “Humane Metholds [Exhale]“From the Fronte Vacuo group for the world premiere, where humans meet algorithms. The new “black box” under the roof will feature two Vienna premieres: Nick Payne’s “Constellations” has been announced for spring, and Thomas Melle and Stefan Kaegi and the Rimini Protokoll’s “Uncanny Valley” will be on the agenda in April. . Program. Otherwise, the venue will be used primarily as a rehearsal setting.
