Self-Accusation - Academy Theater Vienna

The successful production SELF-ACCUSATION, a solo evening with Stefanie Reinsperger, is finally returning to Vienna after its premiere at Volx/Margareten in 2015 and its transfer to the Berliner Ensemble: Peter Handke's SELF-ACCUSATION, which premiered in 1966, serves in a way as a complementary counterpart to the preceding PUBLIC INSULT. The audience is not attacked but elevated to the highest authority, as if it were a court or a god. "Postulates, principles, labels, statutes, general opinions, and formulas" (Peter Handke) form prescriptions that seem inevitable to violate. Following the motto "Whoever lives, disturbs," the text demonstrates the mistakes that accompany every life path. While Handke attempts not to attribute culpable behavior to personal weaknesses, Dušan David Pařízek takes the opposite approach: he personalizes the impersonal again.

Director: Dušan David Pařízek
Set Design: Dušan David Pařízek
Costumes: Kamila Polívková
Lighting: Herbert Markl
Dramaturgy: Roland Koberg