Andy Warhol once promised us our ‘15 minutes of fame’. He said that every human and every biography can spark a myth. So it is not just the stories of Agamemnon, Orestes, Oedipus, etc. that can deliver the material for great theatre. Swedish director and author Mattias Andersson set out to search for Vienna’s new myths in a large-scale process over the course of a year. All inhabitants were invited to share their stories: ‘Which part of your life belongs centre-stage? And what detail would you still like to change about it?’, Andersson asked. Myths of Everyday Life lets the people of Vienna become the authors of their own myth. Their biographies meld into a polyphonous panorama of the city and Mattias Andersson, together with the Volkstheater ensemble, condenses them into a theatre production that is moving, heterogenous, comical and surprising. Paying homage to diversity.
A joint production by Volkstheater Wien and Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna
Direction Mattias Andersson With Bernardo Arias Porras, Aleksandra Ćorović, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Paula Nocker, Nick Romeo Reimann, Karoline Marie Reinke, Günther Wiederschwinger, Johanna Wokalek Stage design, Costume Ulla Kassius Musical Direction Anna Sóley Tryggvádottir Light design Charlie Åström Dramaturgy Tobias Schuster
Production Volkstheater Wien, Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna
In collaboration with the Institute of Sociology at the University of Vienna
