A production by the Israeli Acco Theater left the audience at the “wortwiege” festival in Wiener Neustadt with goosebumps. “The Anthology” proved to be an artful blend of different genres. The play alternated between musical cabaret, psychodrama and history lesson, but with the best means the theater has to offer: two stage professionals.
Two Israeli directors reflect on stage about a new play as well as about their lives in Europe and life in Israel itself. Witty and profound, humorous and sad at the same time, they won over the audience at ‘wortwiege’ in the Kasematten in Wiener Neustadt.
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.
Aleksandar Acev shows in his performance “Lucy was not long ago” that our repertoire of movements is not only anthropologically well comprehensible. He also makes clear that we express our feelings with our body at every moment. Whether we want it or not.
Many of us don’t have the best memories of the lockdown era. That’s not the case for Ece Anisoglu and Julia Pacher. After all, they developed “The Orlando Project” together when culture was at a standstill on the outside. Now it had its open-air premiere in Vienna in August.