Marlene Streeruwitz

‘The murder of women. It's an everyday occurrence. And everyone is complicit. The laws. The courts. The medical profession. Employers."

Women die simply because they are women. After the murders, the perpetrators and their violent acts dominate the media and legal proceedings. What is overlooked completely are the lives that have been brutally extinguished. Relatives are usually unheard, and the murdered women and their stories fall silent.

Nachsagungen takes an empathetic change of perspective. Based on research into cases of femicide in Austria, a series of monologues has been created that questions the structures that facilitate femicide as the most extreme manifestation of a toxic, patriarchal mindset. In the course of the play, the universality of the issue is revealed through the exploration of an apparently isolated case. Just as the play deliberately omits the perspective of the perpetrator and the exact sequence of events, the production also uses visual omissions and reductions. Detailed imagery is replaced by an atmospheric visual world that, like a live radio play, engages the audience's imagination. Ultimately, the women are given the last word.