The Best Play Ever
75 Years of Vienna Festival
From faeces performances to gory theatre worship, from fantastic canonical evenings to immersive nightmares, from a Lipizzaner stallion to the spirit of Luc Bondy, from Baroque operas to Christoph Schlingensief’s container, The Best Play Ever is a bizarre and touching revue that brings the highs and lows of 75 years of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) back on stage!
Moderated by Vienna’s darlings Inge Maux and Samouil Stoyanov, the evening takes the audience from the birth of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) in 1951 all the way to today’s Free Republic of Vienna. It is the opener for this year’s festival edition, the Republic of Gods.
Settled Viennese and new arrivals, both fans and haters of the Vienna Festival recount stories of their first theatre love, of divine rapture, boredom and fun. Great moments of collective memory meet personal stories as the city itself becomes the stage, with its longings, secrets and juxtapositions. It is a small history of theatre and of our beloved Vienna.
A production of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna
Information
- Recommended for ages 16 and up
- Artistik talk on May 19 following the performance
Trigger warning: This play contains depictions of violence.
Halle E
Halle E+G
