Trailer Tartaglia

Music: Vienna Clarinet Connection
Video: Grzegorz Kielawski

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Tartaglia: 03/22/2014 Reading Concert Video Performance

Reading and performance: Philipp Weiss and Anna Rot
Music: Vienna Clarinet Connection
Video: Grzegorz Kielawski

“Tartaglia is a multiple-fragmented highly poetic text. Suggestively it tells about Herculine, who is oscillating between the sexes, and Tartaglia, the figure of the stutterer from the Commedia dell’arte. It tells about longing and lost love. About traveling, losing oneself , and about that loss beyond recall, that death brings. For all that Weiss, who is so far known mainly for his dramatic works, finds daring, sometimes excessive images. Images of life as a carnival, in which one is lost. Of masquerades, thus of veilings and unveilings, as it is said at the end. And of that fool‘s game called love, and its dissolution in linguistic evocation.”
Der Standard

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“Ein schöner Hase ist meistens der Einzellne” Premiere 03/31/2014

Ernst Herbeck and August Walla. Although the two artists share some medical diagnoses and biographical stages, they could hardly be more different. Walla witnesses the death of his grandmother as a child and interprets it as a collapse of the universe. He starts to imagine a cosmos beyond the world and the skys and creates his „Universe-end-land“ – an extensive fantastic empire, populated with gods, symbols, emblems and languages, a world, whose part and God he is himself. Herbeck, in contrast, is silent. His disposition is an entirely different. He is born with a cleft lip, which severely affects his ability to speak. In his case it is not the trauma, but the stigma, a physical-linguistic infraction, that characterizes him. The play tells the story of these two people. But what kind of story? One of the mentally ill? One of the victims of society? One of the heroes, who rebel against the violent symbolic order? One of two genius artists? Neither Herbeck nor Walla ever wanted to be an artist. In the play, they say nothing. They constitute a silent center. The surrounding voices, views and times destroy and create them: as invalids, as products or as geniuses. The mute monad of madness is always a lovely rabbit.

“Stunning! (…) Impressively they present the premiere audience with a very simple, convincing and absolutely ingenious evening of theater down to the last detail.”
KULTUR – Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft

“A play of great momentousness.”
Vorarlberger Nachrichten

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“Allerwelt” Premiere 03/20/2014

Refugee stories were elementary in the last century. With „Allerwelt“ Philipp Weiss creates a polyphonic and multilingual choir of refugees and memories, which unrolls a comprehensive panorama of several decades of history. He tells the story of Gaspar, the Hungarian border guard, Yasar, the Turkish transsexual, Malalai, the Afghan doctor, Fatima, the Somali woman and her children, Naseer, the young Iraqi, Thien, the old silent Vietnamese, the story of Anat, the Jewish woman who was abandoned by her parents on their way to Zion, the story of Tereza, the Czech searching for love, and the one of Guillermo, the Chilean who escaped from Pinochet’s torture chamber. How different their fates may be, they have one thing in common: the break in their biographies, the loss of language, of home, and thus of identity. With Mila Katz, the main character of the play, the longing for coherence steps into the incoherence. The discontinuities and cracks in her own biography let her enter this place of discontinuities and cracks. She does so in the hope to bridge them, to bring the torn to this hidden order, which she assumes to be somewhere. Allerwelt keeps a secret. The place has an aura soaked with history. The medium of coherence are the stories. And with the narration comes memory, which should serve as a medicine to heal this severe illness, the lack of identity. Mila Katz is a figure of an aesthetic integration.