A table, a chair, a bottle. And a glass of wine, which a waiter is serving to a guest. That is how it starts. But who is serving who? Or who is serving whom? Who will foot the bill at the end of the day? Who will up the ante? In the work of British author and director Tim Etchells, which he originally developed with Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas in Avignon, power dynamics are played out both acerbically and humorously in countless variations of the same scene. With a table, chair and bottle, the Free Republic of Vienna, in cooperation with the Volkstheater in den Bezirken, is inviting audiences in all 23 districts of Vienna to see the slapstick comedy during spring and autumn, from Tschauner Bühne in Ottakring to the football club in Floridsdorf. Join us – after all, everyone has to deal with power, and that can be a nightmare or insanely funny.

Die Rechnung / L’Addition by Tim Etchells marks the start of the Volksstück / Pièce Commune series, which the Free Republic of Vienna produces together with the Festival d’Avignon: touring plays with a maximum of two actors and hardly any technology, staged by a different artist each year and performed in community centers, on soccer pitches, openair stages etc. Popular theatre at the highest level, world theatre for everyone.

60 seconds with Tim Etchells