Theater im Bahnhof

DIE MÜTTER is a scary and funny chamber drama about feminist role models, fears of the future, guilty consciences and the desire to understand the next generation by trying to imitate it mimetically. The Graz Ensemble Theater im Bahnhof performers count on unrestrained self-discovery and target in their new piece their roles as mothers and their adolescent offspring. They do away with the socially and subjectively decreed assumption that being a mother per se always has to be and must be fulfilling, and they present themselves as women who explore, fight, despair and who – after a long expedition into the unknown – are confronted with the question: mission completed?
From conversations which a cultural anthropologist conducted with the the performers, their mothers and their children about adolescence and  hopes and fears concerning the future, Theater im Bahnhof constructs a personal and sociopolitical evening. A pars pro toto for the generation of mothers today.

The Graz Theater im Bahnhof is the biggest professional free theatre ensemble in Austria. It has appeared in brut with many plays, most recently in 2011 with TIME TO GET READY FOR LOVE. www.theater-im-bahnhof.com

Audience talk following the performance on 18 February.

Director Monika Klengel Scenography Heike Barnard Dramaturgy, textwork Colette Schmidt Assistance to stage design Helene Thümmel Scientific Research Robin Klengel Technology Moke Klengel Lighting design Martin Schneebacher With Beatrix Brunschko, Juliette Eröd, Gabriela Hiti, Eva Maria Hofer, Monika Klengel Support Ed. Hauswirth Exhibition Müttertag
Georg Klüver-Pfandtner

A co-production of Theater im Bahnhof and brut Wien. With the kind support of the Cultural Office of the City of Graz, the Cultural Department of the Styrian Provincial Government and Austria’s Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. Thanks to our mothers and children for the wonderful collaboration. 

€ 14 Full price
€ 8 reduced
€ 6 with the brutkarte*