"Under the Influence or: The Return of the Bacchae - Schauspielhaus Salzburg"

Under the Influence or: The Return of the Bacchae by NATALIE BAUDY Winner of the Author Competition of the Austrian Theater Alliance World Premiere Co-production with the Theater KOSMOS Bregenz, the Bregenz Festival, and the Klagenfurt Ensemble DIRECTOR & STAGE Josef Krasanovsky VIDEO Dominika Kalcher Premiere: April 3, 2027, Hall Performance Dates: Until April 22, 2027 Three women from three generations gradually draw closer to each other on the seventh floor of an apartment building when suddenly strange plagues begin to rain down in their courtyard. Cut off from the outside world, Ems, Anja, and Liselotte empty bottle after bottle and share memories of intoxication, relationships, and family. In fact, drinking has long ceased to bring them joy. They push themselves to the limit but no longer feel it, or feel too much, or feel the wrong things, but no longer what they are searching for. Gradually, they uncover the true reasons for their drinking together and reveal their own alcohol consumption as a coping mechanism with patriarchal structures. While the eternally exhausted goddess Dionysa eliminates the plagues, the three women run out of alcohol and make a radical decision. A play about dependencies and the search for a depatriarchalized intoxication.