There is no tougher test that love can be subjected to: Alceste loses her husband, King Admète, on the day of their wedding. Apollo intervenes and announces that Admète can be brought back from the dead if someone sacrifices their live for him. Hearing this, Alceste stabs herself.

"MANIFESTATIONS" both questions the structure and conventions of the black box theatre and pays a performative homage to the endless fictional scenarios that can be activated through the imagination.

We invite you to the 2024 programme presentation, guided tour "Behind the scenes", artist talk and discussion. At the OPEN HOUSE, educators and teachers get to know the artists and the DSCHUNGEL WIEN team personally and enter into dialogue with them.

Together with his contemporaries Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, Max Oppenheimer, who signed his work MOPP, took the artistic depiction of people into a new dimension: MOPP transformed the bourgeois-representative likeness into a psychological portrait.

In a fantastic world where dragons fight lions and giants defend money and gold. In a time when oaths are made and broken words are paid for with one's life. In the world of medieval fairy tales, Iwein tries to pass all the tests and still remain true to himself.

"REMACHINE" explores the interplay between humans and an inescapable hyper-mechanised environment. At the mercy of their own technology, the dancers navigate the unstable ground under their feet. The performance unravels as a chain of cause and effect.