17.05.2012 to 20.05.2012
Wiener Festwochen 2012: Szégyen / Disgrace
DANCE/PERFORMANCE/MUSIC
Wiener Festwochen 2012
J.M. Coetzee / Kornél Mundruczó
Szégyen / Disgrace
Drama / Budapest / Vienna
Date: Thu, May 17 to Sun, May 20, 20:30
Venue: Halle G
Commissioned Project / World Premiere
Hungarian, overtitled in German
With Szégyen, Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó adapts Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s hard hitting novel in the ingenious shape of a reality show and challenges his audience to look at one of the hottest topics in today’s Europe: the fallout from colonialism and assumed cultural supremacy.
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