The Steirischer Herbst23 features a wealth of performances in the three weeks it lasts. At the same time, however, there are also static exhibitions that have a special feature. Everything that can be seen at the exhibition venues has a reference to Graz. This is probably a unique curatorial perspective that is not found to the same extent at other festivals, and for the most part not at all.
The director, author and performer Franz von Strolchen alias Christian Winkler created with the production “The Ship of Theseus” a post-dramatic piece on the topic of Roma.
Korhan Basaran impressed the audience of the “wortwiege” with his “Dido” in the Kasematten in Wiener Neustadt.
“Bones and Stones” – what rhymes so wonderfully in English sounds much more unwieldy in German.
Abuse of power begins in the family and it is passed on from there. With ‘L’etang / Der Teich’, Gisèle Vienne succeeded in creating a highly emotional adaptation of Robert Walser’s play of the same name. It shows how children are emotionally at the mercy of their parents and how much they suffer when they are deprived of love.
Tschechows „Der Kirschgarten“ in der Inszenierung von Tiago Rodrigues, überzeugte bei den Wiener Festwochen gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht.