HEIL. Eine energetische Reinigung

HEIL. Eine energetische Reinigung
Rabenhof Theatre (Vienna)

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Venue: Weltkunstzimmer, Glashalle
Ronsdorfer Strasse 77a
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Ticket prices:
Adv. booking 28 Euro, conc. 14 Euro
Box office 32 Euro, conc. 16 Euro
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Duration: 70 min., no intermission
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Following the performance on 27 June, there will be an audience discussion on stage with author Stefanie Sargnagel and the production team.
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The event is wheelchair accessible.

“Whimsical
Milieu
Porn”
[nachtkritik]

In the past three years, Austria and many other countries have seen a flurry of activity in the so-called “Contrarian” scene, which became especially visible at the regular “Covid protests”. They have always been there, but during the pandemic they suddenly marched through the streets en masse: Esoterics, side by side with conspiracy theorists, known neo-Nazis, but also with leftists and hippies. United under the credo of hostility to science, horse deworming drugs were snorted, “revitalised water” gargled and energetic vaccination transformations performed. So-called alternative medicine and all its excesses were suddenly no longer just a quirky hobby of the eccentric neighbour, but a social problem with concrete effects on the health system. In her new play, Stefanie Sargnagel delves into the world of shamans, energetics and “nippies”. For research purposes, she went into the yoga lion’s den herself, attended an aura reading seminar in Vienna’s 14th district, among other things, in “HEIL. Eine energetische Reinigung” she takes a critical and satirical look at this bizarre scene.

After the successful show “JA, EH! – Beisl, Bier und Bachmannpreis”, which was a guest at the asphalt Festival 2019, Stefanie Sargnagel has developed a new text for the Rabenhof Theatre – once again in a production by directing shooting star Christina Tscharyiski and with a brilliant ensemble of actors. Live music is provided by the band of the hour: Buntspecht.

The writer Stefanie Sargnagel won the audience award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with a text which she later used as material to develop the play “JA, EH!”. In 2020, her first novel “Dicht. Aufzeichnungen einer Tagediebin” was published, in which she dealt with her own youth. In spring 2022, she was invited to be a visiting professor at Grinnell College in Iowa to teach creative writing. The trenchant comments and observations of the Viennese are regularly published in German-language feuilleton.

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The press says:

“Indeed, even a virtuoso mocker like Stefanie Sargnagel has trouble exaggerating the madness in a satirical way. But of course she succeeds again and again.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

“The four-member ensemble plays magnificently, the punchlines purr.” (Theatre Today)

“Rather, this evening is tough on the outside and empathetic on the inside, and perhaps for that very reason exactly what is needed in these difficult times.” (Der Standard)

“Frighteningly real!” (Kronen Zeitung)

“Stefanie Sargnagel caustically attacks esotericism” (Deutschlandfunk)

 

with Tanja Raunig, Bettina Schwarz, Bernhard Dechant, Alexander Strobele
Text: Stefanie Sargnagel
Live music: Buntspecht
Stage adaptation: Christina Tscharyiski and Fabian Pfleger
Director: Christina Tscharyiski
Dramaturgy: Fabian Pfleger
Stage design: Dominique Wiesbauer
Costumes: Miriam Draxl

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