Kathrin Röggla

fake reports
6 Darsteller
UA: 16.10.2002 · Volkstheater Wien · Directed by: Tina Lanik
In her dramatic discussion of a dramatic event, Röggla examines "how we produce reality by means of the patterns and representations we have of this reality, and how this reality then strikes back at us." Six people engage with us, and three rhetorical positions, all of which form the foundation of the event as it appears to us spectators. They are media machines, presence machines, and myth machines. There are three times two people who work in media professions and are therefore always present in duplicate because they represent others, because they have to portray and share their stories.
They report what they have heard. They distribute information. They attract attention. They publish statements. They draw comparisons. They count the dead, the injured and the missing. They lie, calculatedly or in shock. But above all, this play is about a situation in the public eye, in which different rhetorics co-exist and determine the course of events, mutually interfere with each other, and undermine each other. It is about the communicative gestures that underlie our insecurity and panic, and the social rites by which we try to curb these things.
Around September eleventh, according to Kathrin Röggla, "a separate culture emerged, one that seems to be woven from political and cultural threads, a memorial- and tragedy-culture that supports political functionalization and reverses the circumstances. The event has developed a pull and the question of what can still be attributed to it, how it grows, and who will have been there in the end assumes a theatrical form."
Translated into: Arabic, Czech

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