united sorry/Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn

The performance duo ‘united sorry’ goes green and turns its back on the auditorium. As part of their yearlong project Green Conversations, Frans Poelstra and Robert Steijn head out to conquer Vienna’s recreational areas. A city park, a private garden, and the Vienna Woods become venues for mystic re-discovery and communing with nature. And nature here includes the plants and trees, but also the unforeseen, the primordial, that which cannot be manipulated. How do humans relate to this natural state and the cultivation they have wrought? How do they use the space, and what energies emanate from these natural settings? The protagonists of the various performances include the surrounding trees and their spirituality, which united sorry wishes to sound out. People enter into a dialogue with their natural surroundings away from the climate-controlled artificiality of the theatre, get to know the power of plants, and allow themselves to be whisked away by united sorry along a magically poetic journey between sticks and stones, trees, bushes, and hedgerows.

To kick off their project in February, united sorry begins with a cultural Salon im Garten [Salon in the Garden]. At the city’s edge, on the border between the territory ruled by trees (forest) and the landscape firmly under human control (the City of Vienna), a cooking philosopher, a shaman with therapeutic potential, a composer who invents his own instruments, and two gracious hosts lead the audience into unknown territory of reflection. This intimate salon by united sorry will become a veritable ceremony, where trees begin to speak and where one can listen and/or simply enjoy the quietude of outdoors in winter.

The salon will be taking place indoors at times, outdoors at others, thus we ask you wear warm clothes and good shoes. The shuttle bus will leave from brut im Künstlerhaus to the garden at the city’s edge. Registration required! www.unitedsorry.com

By united sorry/Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn Production Nicole Schuchardt, Andreas Fleck
With united sorry/Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn, August Thalhamer, Matthias Meinharter, Giovanni Dellefant & Angelika Hauser, Christine Schörkuber and others

With support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

€ 6