Stefanie Sourial
FREAK
After her huge success at the 2014 Freischwimmer Festival, Stefanie Sourial returns to brut this February. Her solo performance FREAK walks the thin line between repulsion and excitement, self-control and madness, good manners and uncontrolled violence. The patient Valerie IX. has been afflicted by unbearable repulsion and aggressions towards other people all her life. She dreads disgusting gum chewers or impertinently harrumphing seat neighbours. The attentive audience that assumes the role of therapist listens to her reflecting family histories of proper conduct and old traditions and describing the futile struggle of shaking off forcibly learned etiquettes and rigid norms. Listening to these nauseating deliberations while self-analysing may well reveal unpleasant parallels to one’s own behaviour.
Stefanie Sourial finished the international theatre school Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has been working as a freelance performance artist and musician in Vienna and London since 2010. In addition to her own solo projects she is part of the production Ballad of the Burning Star by the London-based international company Theatre Ad Infinitum. She also appears as a burlesque performer with the group CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL (2009–2014) and directs or choreographs for fellow artists.
Idea, direction, performance, sound, words Stefanie Sourial Dramaturgical support Moira Hille
A co-production of Stefanie Sourial and Freischwimmer Festival/brut Wien. With the kind support of God’s Entertainment/EMMA7-Award.
€ 14,- full price
€ 8,- reduced
€ 6,- with the brutkarte*