Season 25/26
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Reading hall of emotions
Body. Politics. Emotion. With Alexander Kluge
“Emotions are the true inhabitants of human lives. It can be said of them that they are everywhere, but you just don't see them.”
A sustained reading performance in the area of Graz Central Station in the run-up to Christmas. Actors from TiB read texts from Alexander Kluge's work in a public yet intimate setting, transforming themselves into characters or re-enacting the images described in simple form.
‘... here I concentrate on individual sentences. And every sentence is an observation and…
HILDE
Either way, she and I
Hilde performs four times in November and December 2025 at Theater Drachengasse in Vienna!
The guest performance on June 21, 2025 at the Dachbodentheater in Stainz has been canceled and postponed to January 2026!
People react very differently when they learn that they have a life-threatening illness. Some continue to live as before, some go traveling, some become religious.
And some fulfill a long-cherished wish. Like our stage character, who takes her cancer as an opportunity to make an evening…
Let's play I am old and tired
A live gaming theater with Total Refusal
Yes, we can. - Barack Obama
Sorry, too tired and exhausted - Slavoj Žižek
Live in front of the audience, TOTAL REFUSAL and the TiB create a tired hero who wants to lead a secluded life in the mountains of a video game - like in Henry David Thoreau's “Walden”.
Avatars, the main characters in video games, almost always lead the life of the young up-and-comer. They start out as insignificant nobodies and learn to dominate the world over the course of the game. Their toned bodies remain forever…
GAME OF DEATH
Impro Solo with Jacob Banigan
Taking inspiration from the audience and a deck of fortune-telling cards, Jacob Banigan evokes exotic settings, embodies diverse characters and hurtles through intriguing stories. But he is not totally in control; there are twists he cannot predict, elements are controlled by the audience, and the Egg Timer Of Death is always ticking...
GAME OF DEATH premiered in Graz in 2012, and the monthly show has been sold out ever since. Banigan has also performed the show in Vienna, London, Bristol, Toronto,…
HEIRS
Who Gets the House?
A house hovers in the “Detroit” hall. Two independent theater ensembles from Graz - Das Planetenparty Prinzip and Theater im Bahnhof - have made a pact to tackle the topic of inheritance here.
16 people. Who is how rich? Who is likely to inherit how much? Who will get what? Can you make a clear list from this? An experiment.
Scenes, voices, bodies, past and present overlap between large groups and intimacy, hectic and silence.
Sometimes an inherited tea service is enough to describe the lost position…
MONTAG
The improvised show
After almost 30 years, the TiB players still don't know what this evening actually is. Even after hundreds of shows, thousands of stories and plays without a text, where we direct and rehearse live on stage, our desire to play remains unchecked. Inspired by suggestions from the audience, we create characters and invent stories that are spontaneous, unique and one-of-a-kind. This is how characters, stories and songs are created. A musician improvises the appropriate atmosphere.
The stage is empty,…
Last Will
Or: what remains?
Visiting TiB in January!
“Do I need a house? My own house? Am I not caring if I don't pass on anything material? Is ownership a right or a duty? Why can't this idea die?”
In TESTAMENT. Or: what remains? performer Barbara Gassner takes up her inheritance. The sale of her parents' house marks the disappearance of a place that was her home. In a long process, Gassner decides what to do with her mother's belongings: much is given away, let go—and some is taken along. Placed at home, these things…
Erstes Wiener Heimorgelorchester
"BLOWER"
The EWHO presents a new program with an old twist: the music is played on electric blower organs from the 1950s and 1960s. Intimate songs with lyrics in the tried-and-tested home organ style. In a tone ranging from cheerful to out of tune. The fans hum.
(We have our texts translated by DeepL)
