Body, Emotion, Politics
Season 25/26
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Let's play I am old and tired
A live gaming theater with Total Refusal
The production will be performing at the Future Lab at the Schubert Theater Vienna on February 19 and at the Digithalia Festival at the Schauspielhaus Graz on March 27!
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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)
The unheard things
another kind of provenance research
Our production can be seen as part of FRAUEN*MÄRZ 2026 on March 14 from 10-13:00 at Lendplatz in Graz. Admission is free!
A theater work in public space, a fictional radio broadcast on provenance research and restitution of looted Jewish property.
The project deals with looted art and everyday objects from former Jewish possession from the region. These objects and the personal stories surrounding them are the focus of a theater work in public space. Residents and visitors of the Salzkammergut…
1000 Euro und eine Nacht
Episode I & II
1000 Euro und eine Nacht ist der Beginn einer sechsteiligen Theater-Miniserie von und mit Zaid Alsalame. In der Form einer neo-kabarettistischen Performance untersucht der Abend Wert, Herkunft, Scham und kulturelle Zuschreibung zwischen Irak und Österreich. Persönliche Erfahrungen des Protagonisten werden mit Motiven aus Tausend und einer Nacht konfrontiert.
Manchmal wird auch auf Arabisch, meistens auf Deutsch erzählt. Zaid Alsalame dekonstruiert diese Erzählung als Produkt eines „literarischen…
