Comedy of Seduction
What's it about?
Vienna, Summer 1914. Europe stands on the brink of the abyss, yet the upper society meets undeterred to celebrate. The Prince of Perosa invites to a masked ball. At its center, three self-confident women dance: The hotly courted Countess Aurelie is just beginning an affair with the daring Max von Reisenberg, which is doomed from the start. For he also courts the beautiful singer Judith, who in turn is in love with her sister's husband. Nevertheless, Judith gets involved with Max, but sets clear conditions – one night of love, nothing more. Seraphine, an aspiring violinist, also has a romance with Max. But when she expects a child from him, she decides to raise this child alone and rejects him. The titular seduction, however, is more than an erotically fleeting game. It is about freedom and responsibility, about deception and self-deception, and about the question of what consequences one is willing to bear. What begins as a supposedly light game, in which the characters stage their lives as a fairy tale, reveals itself in the face of the approaching war as a dance on the volcano. In the production by Hungarian director Ildikó Gáspár, musical parts from the operetta repertoire will play a special role. She explores the escapist operetta bliss of a society under whose glittering surface the cracks of an entire era emerge, a society just before its moral and historical collapse. Schnitzler's rarely performed play, in which lust for life and weariness, humor and despair coexist, paints a picture that seems frighteningly contemporary. Premiere on September 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Where?
Theater in der Josefstadt
Josefstädter Straße 26
Source: Eventim
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