Self-Accusation

Description

The Viennese successful production SELF-ACCUSATION is not a drama in the classical sense, there is no plot that develops. Rather, we experience a stream of language that circles the self, holds it, releases it again, and binds it anew. A text that begins like a litany and at the same time repeatedly collapses into itself.
The exceptional actress Stefanie Reinsperger does not play the text – she unleashes it. Dialect changes, tempi, ironic breaks, vocal escalations. A virtuoso fireworks display that uses Handke's text more as material than as an inner exploration space. Peter Handke's SELF-ACCUSATION, premiered in 1966, is in a way a complementary counterpart to the preceding "Audience Insult." The audience is not attacked but elevated to the highest authority, as if it were a court or a god.
In the spirit of "Who lives, disturbs," the text demonstrates the mistakes that accompany every life path. Where Handke tries not to attribute guilty behavior to personal weaknesses, Dušan David Pařízek takes the opposite path: he makes the impersonal personal again.
○"Against which laws of the theater have I transgressed?" Peter Handke
○"Stefanie Reinsperger has made Peter Handke's spoken piece 'Self-Accusation' her own. A triumph at the Akademietheater." Die Presse Vienna
Self-Accusation | Burgtheater WITH Stefanie Reinsperger DIRECTION AND SET DESIGN Dušan David Pařízek COSTUMES Kamila Polívková
LIGHT Herbert Markl DRAMATURGY Roland Koberg A PRODUCTION OF Volkstheater Vienna, as a takeover from the Berliner Ensemble

Highlights

• With Stefanie Reinsperger
• Direction: Dušan David Pařízek
• Unique language performance

General Information

The production 'Self-Accusation' by Peter Handke is performed at the Kurtheater Baden. Stefanie Reinsperger unleashes the text in a virtuoso performance that places the audience at the center.

Location

Parkstrasse 20, 5400 Baden, Switzerland

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