THE VIENNA TRIALS
Milo Rau has already staged show trials in Moscow and Zurich; now the city of Vienna and with it the Free Republic of Vienna proclaimed by the Wiener Festwochen will also have their own trials.
A mixture of hard realism and social sculpture, Milo Rau’s trial formats (The Zurich Trials, The Moscow Trials, The Congo Tribunal) are an exercise in democratic methods and yet stage events: performances that are arranged as legal trials place real figures of contemporary life on stage. Politics are negotiated without a pre-ordained outcome. The Vienna Trials will take place on three weekends at the Free Republic of Vienna.