Die letzten Tage der Menschheit

Universitätsring 2

1010 Wien

 

A co-production with the Salzburg Festival

Between 1915 and 1922, Karl Kraus wrote the extensive drama THE LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY. In over 200 scenes, the First World War is portrayed in a manner as profound as it is absurd: from the delusion of politicians and deliberate disinformation by the press to the dull indifference of the population. Kraus relentlessly exposes how the intertwining of power interests and war propaganda, together with an opportunistic society, makes the madness of war possible in the first place.

Director Dušan David Pařízek creates a new version of the material, which was long considered "unperformable" and originally intended by Kraus himself not for an earthly but for a "Martian theater."

(Source: burgtheater.at)