Die Party
Tue 30.12.2025
20:30–21:50
Die Party
Theatre
Schauspielhaus Graz - Schauraum
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By an absurd coincidence, the first-person narrator ends up in the family home of an Austrian director, who is hosting a cooking party in his hobby cellar. The event soon reveals itself to be nothing more than the director’s self-presentation. He stylizes himself as a great cook, parade feminist and male genius – a “mansplainer” par excellence. Unexpectedly, the young woman stumbles into the yuppie party guests’ discussions about emancipation, the concept of the “strong woman” and improving the world. While vast quantities of Prosecco are being poured and dumplings tasted, the protagonist tries to come to terms with an emotional conflict with her sister and not get lost in the midst of the heated discussions.…
For her debut novel “Die Party. Eine Einkreisung”, author and cabaret artist Ulrike Haidacher received the Peter Rosegger Literature Prize of the Province of Styria in 2022. In it, the Graz native exposes with a biting undertone the façade of a society that carries pseudo-values in front of it and for which do-gooderism is no longer more than en vogue. At the premiere of this furious monologue, performed by Marlene Hauser, the Schauraum is transformed into a party cellar in which, as at any good party, events come thick and fast and reality and fiction begin to blur – Jägerbomb anyone?
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes, no break
TIP for New Year’s Eve: “The Party” and the “Revolving Stage Beat” are also available in the combination package!
