A party, maybe the last party before the war: In an immersive performance space, the audience forms a community of fate together with two performers, percussionists and a choir of young women. French philosopher Simone Weil already tackled Homer’s Iliad – the original myth of violence in war – in 1940, analysing the dynamics and mechanisms of incessant warring. Her thoughts have inspired the Austrian/Brazilian/Spanish trio Brigitta Muntendorf (composition), Christiane Jatahy (director) and Rosa Montero (text), who respond to Homer’s epic with a contemporary feminist position. Enter a 3D audio setting with bone transmission headphones and live camera footage to celebrate together – on the edge of the abyss.
A joint production of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna and the Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen
Composition Brigitta Muntendorf Direction Christiane Jatahy Text Rosa Montero With Sofia Jernberg, Margaux Marielle-Trehoüart, Les Percussions de Strasbourg (François Papirer, Yi-Ping Yang, Tamara Kurkiewicz, Marius Schmidlin), Aduni Guedes, Landesjugendchor Wien and background actors/actresses Stage design, Light design Thomas Walgrave (in collaboration with Júlio Parente) Photography and live camera Paulo Camacho Sound direction Sebastian Schottke Dramaturgy Jana Beckmann, Martin Mutschler Programming, Live electronics Lukas Nowok 3D Audio operation Banu Sahin
Commissioned by Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien Production Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen Coproduction Les Percussions de Strasbourg
The production is funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Germany).
World premiere May 2026, Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic Vienna
