NESTERVAL Das alte Dorf
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PLAYING PLACE/LOCATION: Museumsdorf Volksdorf
EN
The summer festival stars from Vienna are back and this time they are playing an entire village with an epic story about love, violence and xenophobia.
Summer festival fans know: When Nesterval comes, theater is exciting (and sells out quickly). In the immersive plays by the queer folk theater group, the audience walks with individual characters through a variety of scenes and spaces in temporary venues such as empty schools or former cocoa warehouses. The Viennese group, whose permanent ensemble now also includes performers from Hamburg, is now coming to the summer festival for the fifth time - and will be performing in the 1.5-hectare Museumsdorf Volksdorf. For Hamburg, Nesterval is adapting their play DAS DORF, which was nominated for the Nestroy Prize and creates a dramatic wedding story from 19th century feminist literature, Austrian Heimat films and bleak mountain farmer realism: farmer's daughter Anna-Lisa is about to marry farmhand Johannes when two uninvited guests appear in the village with the knowledge of a gruesome crime. In the role of wedding guests, the audience travels back in time, ever closer to the cause of the catastrophe and into a very contemporary world of love of country and xenophobia. As always with Nesterval, historical and literary material is combined with pop culture and the political present. Gender roles and role models are mixed up, and in the end there is at least the utopia of a better world.
EN
Vienna's Summer Festival stars return, transforming an entire village into a stage for an epic story of love, violence, and xenophobia.
The immersive plays of the queer theater collective Nesterval transform temporarily used spaces such as abandoned schools or former warehouses into a maze of scenes and rooms, through which the audience follows individual characters, as the story gradually comes together. The Viennese group, which includes several performers from Hamburg - returns for the fifth time to the Summer Festival, taking over the 1.5-hectare Museumsdorf Volksdorf. For Hamburg, Nesterval adapts their Nestroy Prize-nominated piece, Das Dorf, weaving a dramatic wedding story inspired by feminist 19th-century literature, Austrian Heimatfilme, and stark mountain farming realism. Farmer's daughter Anna-Lisa is on the verge of marrying farmhand Johannes when two uninvited guests arrive, bearing knowledge of a terrible crime. The audience embarks on a detective-like journey through time, drawing ever closer to the roots of the catastrophe - and into a world shaped by patriotism and xenophobia. As always, Nesterval blends historical and literary sources with popular elements, culture and contemporary politics. Gender roles and role models are reimagined, evoking the utopia of a better world.
Price information:
52 Euro (reduced from 26 Euro, limited contingent)
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