Sat March 7, 2026 | 13:30-17:30
Sat March 14, 2026 | 13:30-17:30
Bahngasse 27, 2700 Wiener Neustadt
4 hours per day
Price per participant:in:
€ 60 for one day
€ 100 for both days
In a two-day workshop, those interested in theater will be introduced to the principles and rules of dramatic practice based on Sophocles’ tragedy.
Have you always wanted to know how theater practitioners approach play texts? How to coax contemporary stage life out of centuries-old texts? On two Saturday afternoons, you will have the opportunity to experience important stages of theater making: Background to understanding the play, analysis of the text, physical and vocal exercises as well as trying out together how to give mythical figures a voice. In collaboration with the experienced instructors Jérôme Junod, Marie-Therese Handle-Pfeiffer and Anna Luca Krassnigg, you will gain practical insight into the art of creating lively moments, appropriating foreign stories and thus getting to know theatre from a craft perspective.
The workshop is open to anyone interested in theater, no previous experience necessary. It is recommended that you attend both parts, which build on each other. If you are very interested and have a small time budget, you can also book a single day.
Registrations as of now to werkstatt@wortwiege.at
Number of participants: max. 15
Price per participant:in: € 60 for one day, € 100 for both days
Concept and management: Jérôme Junod
“Antigone” by Sophocles
Alongside Aeschylus and Euripides, Sophocles (497-406 BC) is one of the most important ancient playwrights whose works have survived to this day and are staged all over the world. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Iocaste, violates the royal ban on burying her fallen brother Polyneikes. Having been banished from his hometown, he had waged war against it. King Creon, who has only recently ascended the throne, punishes Antigone’s offense unusually harshly.
Sophocles shows the primordial conflict between political and ethical law. The 2026 repertoire is dedicated to the famous second chorus from Antigone: “Monsters are many, and nothing more monstrous than man.”