Burgtheater Vienna – Schedule, Program & Tickets

Burgtheater

After the Comédie Francaise, the Burgtheater in Vienna is Europe’s second-oldest theatre. Today, the Burgtheater, originally known as the K. K. Hoftheater nächst der Burg, complete with its three affiliated venues – the Akademietheater, Kasino and Vestibül – and a permanent ensemble of more than 80 actors and actresses, is one of Europe’s largest theatres and plays a seminal role in the German-speaking theatrical world. Every season, the Burgtheater and its affiliated venues welcome approximately 400,000 theatre-goers to some 800 performances.
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Inès, Estelle and Garcin only have guesses as to why they ended up in this hell together: an interior space without windows and mirrors. Walled in as high as a tower, only occasionally visited by a quirky waiter. an outside? Doesn't exist here. Even the eyelids are paralyzed; the place threatens to be awake all the time, without the redeeming "black flashes" of blinking. Why were these three people, who never met in life, crammed together here? What guilt brought her here? Are they already holding the torture instruments for the others without knowing it?
The actor and musician Nils Strunk creates a joyful, musical reflection on the magic of the stage and the power of togetherness with author Lukas Schrenk, a three-piece band and the ensemble. Mozart and Schikaneder would have turned in their graves.
Inès, Estelle and Garcin only have guesses as to why they ended up in this hell together: an interior space without windows and mirrors. Walled in as high as a tower, only occasionally visited by a quirky waiter. an outside? Doesn't exist here. Even the eyelids are paralyzed; the place threatens to be awake all the time, without the redeeming "black flashes" of blinking. Why were these three people, who never met in life, crammed together here? What guilt brought her here? Are they already holding the torture instruments for the others without knowing it?
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In his drama ORPHEUS RISES DOWN, Williams shows the destructive mechanisms of a society characterized by xenophobia in a place in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s - and in doing so tells a story that continues to play out in a similar form everywhere repeated at all times.
Alceste despises the society around him for their hypocrisy and superficiality. His ideal is unconditional sincerity and truthfulness. He fanatically tries to convert those around him. Alceste's refusal to adapt to society's rules and behave diplomatically leads to bitter experiences. Since he does not praise the poet Oronte, but rather radically criticizes him, he makes an enemy of him. Alceste loses the trial brought by Oronte because he refuses to bribe the judges. He ignores the well-intentioned advice of his loyal friend Philinte.
"And love never ends" is the motto of Horváth's "Ballad" at the Munich Oktoberfest in the early 1930s. However, the love between Kasimir, who received his notice as a chauffeur that day, and Karoline, who does not want to let go of her higher ambitions, ends in the third of one hundred and seventeen scenes with the words: "I like me!" And so it came true the sentence about love that never ends, which at first just sounds malicious, becomes more and more constant as the piece progresses.
In his drama ORPHEUS RISES DOWN, Williams shows the destructive mechanisms of a society characterized by xenophobia in a place in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s - and in doing so tells a story that continues to play out in a similar form everywhere repeated at all times.
NOSFERATU is Australian director Adena Jacobs' second work at the Burgtheater after DIE TROERINNEN. Powerful and poetic, it is dedicated to the intangible fear that manifests itself in Nosferatu then and now.
“The empty promises of progress were nothing but spit in the faces of martyrs of all generations. If time is just a form of perception, or a category of reason, then the past is as present as the present. Cain continues to murder Abel. Still Nebuchadnezzar slaughters Zedekiah's sons and gouges out Zedekiah's eyes. The Kesheniev pogrom never ends. Jews are constantly being burned in Auschwitz. Those who do not have the courage to end their existence have only one way out: to kill their consciousness, to paralyze their memory, to erase the last trace of hope.” (Isaac B. Singer)
Violence as a political tool is back in popularity. “Whoever prevents me from defending myself kills me as well as if he attacked me,” says Robespierre. “Where self-defense ends, murder begins,” says Danton. What should happen next with the French Revolution almost four years after the storming of the Bastille? Should it be transformed into a republic that gives people all the freedom to live their lives, be happy or starve? Or must the revolution continue as a dictatorship until social equality is finally achieved, even if the reign of terror still claims many lives by then?
The actor and musician Nils Strunk creates a joyful, musical reflection on the magic of the stage and the power of togetherness with author Lukas Schrenk, a three-piece band and the ensemble. Mozart and Schikaneder would have turned in their graves.