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TheaterMania revisited! The trip continued. Out into the fresh air, warmth and light of an Upper Austrian summer.

As artforms, theater and dance are much too creative and impart too much joie de vivre to have to coop up audiences seated in darkened rooms all summer long. In this spirit, the performances were in appropriate alternative settings: in the streets, in a garden, under the Lentos, on a hill and under a highway overpass, in busses and on bicycles.

On 35 dates over the five-week festival, more than 12,500 theatergoers attended a total of 73 performances of 18 productions, including four additional performances of the play TWENTYSEVEN. The program included eight world premieres. Its forms and content spanned a wide arc indeed: traditional theater from India and Indonesia, plays dealing with Linz and its history, and the breathtaking creativity of modern dance.

There were rave reviews for the additional offerings: four audience chats and workshops with THEATERMANIA2: SUNBURN artists in conjunction with the ACADEMY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE. Linz09 also carried on its important and successful collaboration with SICHT:WECHSEL in the form of two world premieres, and jointly hosted events with numerous local organizations: the Lentos, Theater Hausruck, theaternyx, Potatello Kompanii, Amateurtheater Oberösterreich and RSC Heindl OÖ Wheelchair Rugby Team.


WHAT // Theater festival
WHEN // July 28-September 2, 2009
WHERE // Various Linz venues


A parachute jump marking the opening of TheaterMania2.

Download:

Theatre Mania2: Schedule (PDF)
Theatre Mania2: Programm (PDF, 6MB)