HOW GOES THE WORLD HISTOIRE(S) DU THÉÂTRE V

Wiener Festwochen 2024

Sun 09. to Wed 12.06., 20.30h, Theatre

After Milo Rau, Faustin Linyekula, Angélica Liddell and Miet Warlop, it is Tim Etchells’ turn to reflect on his personal take on theatre in the fifth episode of the series "Histoire(s) du Théâtre". Brimming with genuine curiosity, the artist, author and founder of Forced Entertainment has been giving a grand stage to the poetry of small gestures for four decades. This evening sees four performers undergo an absurd orgy of entrances and exits, a luscious confusion of roles, costumes and scene changes. The actors appear remote controlled as they react to sounds played by a ghostlike director: The doorbell rings, so the door needs to be opened. The piano sounds, so somebody needs to play it. Tiny changes give rise to new worlds, turn laughter to tears, hopes to despair. "How Goes the World" is the aesthetic manifesto of one of the great stage artists of our time: the theatre gains its power from the relentless desire to change a situation – to break free of the machinery that is driving us to exhaustion.

Age Recommendation: 14+