History 2006 - 2011
NATHAN THE WISE (2011)
Directed by Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Set design by Eduard Neversal
Performed by members of european grouptheater
and the jugendtheater company
Why »Nathan the Wise« of all things? This idealistic drama of ideas? This canticle of tolerance and enlightenment that the educated middle classes were singing for centuries, while the slave trade and colonialism were in full bloom and the cruellest of wars were waged?
Is it really possible to detect relevant parallels between this story, set in medieval Jerusalem, and today's problems with racism and xenophobia? We want to try it.
Should we sit back and wait, until the problems solve themselves? No!
The realisation of common values, the awareness of cultural diversity and an interreligious dialogue are absolutely necessary.
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Directed by Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Set design by Eduard Neversal
Performed by members of european grouptheater
and the jugendtheater company
Why »Nathan the Wise« of all things? This idealistic drama of ideas? This canticle of tolerance and enlightenment that the educated middle classes were singing for centuries, while the slave trade and colonialism were in full bloom and the cruellest of wars were waged?
Is it really possible to detect relevant parallels between this story, set in medieval Jerusalem, and today's problems with racism and xenophobia? We want to try it.
Should we sit back and wait, until the problems solve themselves? No!
The realisation of common values, the awareness of cultural diversity and an interreligious dialogue are absolutely necessary.
Wut (2010)
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The Play: The head of a German-Turkish youth gang is bullying the son of an academic.
The father of the victim intervenes against his son's wishes and, in doing so, aggravates the conflict incrementally. An explosive mixture of hate, humiliation and powerlessness on one side is met with ever escalating brutality on the other side. In the end this leads to a murder being committed.
This is a play about social, cultural and generational conflicts. It's also a play about typically male patterns of behavior in the two cultures involved and about the loneliness of young people.
A play by Max Eipp
Austrian premiere
A theatre project for integration
under the patronage of UNESCO
Austrian premiere
A theatre project for integration
under the patronage of UNESCO
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The Play: The head of a German-Turkish youth gang is bullying the son of an academic.
The father of the victim intervenes against his son's wishes and, in doing so, aggravates the conflict incrementally. An explosive mixture of hate, humiliation and powerlessness on one side is met with ever escalating brutality on the other side. In the end this leads to a murder being committed.
This is a play about social, cultural and generational conflicts. It's also a play about typically male patterns of behavior in the two cultures involved and about the loneliness of young people.
Fahrenheit 451 (2009)
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Set by: Hans Kudlich
Costumes by: Erika Navas
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play: Books have been outlawed in a ficticious authoritarian state, to own or read books is a major crime, to burn books is the job of the 'firemen'. (The title refers to the supposed temperature at which book paper combusts.) One of these 'firemen', Guy Montag, is asked by a strange girl from the neighbourhood one day, if he is happy. This confusing question and the suicide of an elderly woman, who'd rather burn with her books than live without them, sets Montag thinking and turns hin into a secret reader. Finally he flees to the woods and joins the book people, who have memorised whole books in order to preserve them for posterity. He'll be one of them.
A play by Ray Bradbury
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Set by: Hans Kudlich
Costumes by: Erika Navas
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play: Books have been outlawed in a ficticious authoritarian state, to own or read books is a major crime, to burn books is the job of the 'firemen'. (The title refers to the supposed temperature at which book paper combusts.) One of these 'firemen', Guy Montag, is asked by a strange girl from the neighbourhood one day, if he is happy. This confusing question and the suicide of an elderly woman, who'd rather burn with her books than live without them, sets Montag thinking and turns hin into a secret reader. Finally he flees to the woods and joins the book people, who have memorised whole books in order to preserve them for posterity. He'll be one of them.
Die Welle (2008)
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Set by: Eduard Neversal
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play revolves around an experiment a history teacher conducts with his high school students in an attempt to explain why the Germans allowed Hitler and the Nazis to rise to power, acting in a manner inconsistent with their own pre-existing moral values. The experimental attempt to turn his intelligent and critical students into uncritical obedient little Nazis is frighteningly successful. Only a few can resist the fascination of discipline and community feeling the experiment creates, oppose the movement and risk being victimised by the supporters of the new ideology, the »Wave«.
Play by Reinhold Tritt
Based on the famous novel by Morton Rhue
Based on the famous novel by Morton Rhue
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Set by: Eduard Neversal
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play revolves around an experiment a history teacher conducts with his high school students in an attempt to explain why the Germans allowed Hitler and the Nazis to rise to power, acting in a manner inconsistent with their own pre-existing moral values. The experimental attempt to turn his intelligent and critical students into uncritical obedient little Nazis is frighteningly successful. Only a few can resist the fascination of discipline and community feeling the experiment creates, oppose the movement and risk being victimised by the supporters of the new ideology, the »Wave«.
»Die Welle«
Gotteskrieger (2007)
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Choreography by: Eva Derkits
Set by: Eduard Neversal
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play: Seventeen-year-old Zacarias has grown up in Europe, he is completely integrated in his Western society, an ambitious college student, who doesn't even speak Arabic and knows nothing about the Koran. Why does he suddenly want to flee from the complexities of the modern world? Why does he start to divide the world into Good and Evil? Why does he seek refuge and salvation in the identity of a radical jihadist?
The author was inspired by the biography of Zacarias Moussaoui, suspected to be an Al-Quaida member, and in his play raises questions about the search for identity, dangers of globalisation, xenophobia, economic exploitation, religion, respect for other cultures, and about human rights.
A play by Lutz Hübner
Austrian premiere
Austrian premiere
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Choreography by: Eva Derkits
Set by: Eduard Neversal
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play: Seventeen-year-old Zacarias has grown up in Europe, he is completely integrated in his Western society, an ambitious college student, who doesn't even speak Arabic and knows nothing about the Koran. Why does he suddenly want to flee from the complexities of the modern world? Why does he start to divide the world into Good and Evil? Why does he seek refuge and salvation in the identity of a radical jihadist?
The author was inspired by the biography of Zacarias Moussaoui, suspected to be an Al-Quaida member, and in his play raises questions about the search for identity, dangers of globalisation, xenophobia, economic exploitation, religion, respect for other cultures, and about human rights.
»Gotteskrieger«
Ich knall euch ab! (2006)
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Choreography by: Eva Derkits
Set by: Eduard Neversal
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play: A party in the school gym. Everybody enjoying themselves. Until suddenly two of their schoolmates appear at the door toting guns ...
17 dead was the shocking result of an Erfurt pupil's shooting spree, 13 had been killed in the Columbine High School massacre. Why do these school shootings happen? Why do young people murder their friends and teachers before turning the gun on themseves? This question prompted Morton Rhue, author of »The Wave«, to write the stirring novel on which the play is based, after a series of interviews he conducted with survivors of school massacres.
A play by Boris Pfeiffer and Felix Hruby
Based on the novel »Give a Boy a Gun« by Morton Rhue
Austrian Premiere, performed on the Perchtoldsdorf festival stage
Based on the novel »Give a Boy a Gun« by Morton Rhue
Austrian Premiere, performed on the Perchtoldsdorf festival stage
Directed by: Ricky May-Wolsdorff
Choreography by: Eva Derkits
Set by: Eduard Neversal
Performed by the
jugendtheater company NÖ
The play: A party in the school gym. Everybody enjoying themselves. Until suddenly two of their schoolmates appear at the door toting guns ...
17 dead was the shocking result of an Erfurt pupil's shooting spree, 13 had been killed in the Columbine High School massacre. Why do these school shootings happen? Why do young people murder their friends and teachers before turning the gun on themseves? This question prompted Morton Rhue, author of »The Wave«, to write the stirring novel on which the play is based, after a series of interviews he conducted with survivors of school massacres.
»ich knall euch ab!«