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Die Festung fällt

Laura Bernhardt + Lori Brückner + DSCHUNGEL WIEN

Two people are standing in a room. They are not looking at each other, although they are brothers.
© Die Festung Fällt, DSCHUNGEL WIEN, Photo: Franzi Kreis

Play | Ages 12 and up
THE FORTRESS FALLS is a coming-of-age farce that reveals how young men are drawn into destructive worldviews.

Two brothers are home alone for the weekend. The older brother is obsessed with self-improvement and “looksmaxxing,” while the younger one is obsessed with knights, battles, and round tables. Ever since he was little, he’s wanted to become a knight. Unfortunately, he doesn’t yet have what it takes—for now, he’s just a squire. His older brother, who has always been the bigger and stronger of the two, constantly picks on him. When the older brother disappears into a digital “War Room,” the younger brother follows him and thus finds himself in the “Mannosphere” for the first time—an online world of radical ideologies and a brutal cult of the body. Can he finally become the Knight King he’s always wanted to be? The boundaries between the children’s room, knight games, and the War Room are becoming increasingly blurred.

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