Theater im Bahnhof (A)
Death of a card-holder
Tickets
60% theatre
25% radio play
15% shopping


Shopping centres are good places in which to check what is genuine. Since they were invented some sixty years ago, their operators have tried everything to make them as real as possible – while at the same time eliminating anything concerning realtiy which might get in the way of shopping. Shopping centres are private spaces that behave like public places, but only allow as much publicness as suits the private owners. Theatre is essentially useless in such a place: where everything is staged, a theatrical performance can only duplicate what is already there.
But there is also unpredicted human behaviour. Death, for example. Death occurs so frequently in theatre that watching it is simply enjoyable. However, it is not supposed to happen in shopping centres. If you want to die there, you need an ally. Someone who is savvy. A cashpoint, for example.
Therefore, the Graz-based Theater im Bahnhof has joined forces with a cashpoint to find out how death works in a place that would so love to be alive, that so loves to plan everything down to the last detail.
Shopping, selling, eating, catching the tram: the people in the shopping centre go about their shopping centre business. Some meet up at their favourite cashpoint, lingering for an unusually long time, get to talking. It is a ritual. Having a cup of coffee by the cashpoint. Taking a little turn around the cash dispenser.
It’s all about participating in life. And its end. Death as a card-holder. As long as the plastic works, you’re in. You can live and talk about it. But when the card disappears, its holder disappears too.

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Video

TiB: Tod eines Bankomatkartenbesitzers


Theater im Bahnhof (A) Biography


Co-produced by steirischer herbst & Theater im Bahnhof (Graz), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Forum Freies Theater (Düsseldorf) & brut (Vienna)
Co-presented by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union


German-language Première
Fri 01/10, 5.30 pm, Sat 02/10, 3.30 pm, Thu 14/10 & Fri 15/10, 5.30 pm
60‘

16 / 10 €

Talk following the second performance

Sun 26/09, 11 am
Festival centre
Sunday brunches: Election day
By & with
Theater im Bahnhof (A), Herwig Höller (A), Michael Ostrowski (A) et al.




CITYPARK / Information
By and with
Theater im Bahnhof
Direction
Helmut Köpping
Text
Ensemble
With
Jacob Banigan, Juliette Eröd, Pia Hierzegger, Monika Klengel & Martina Zinner
Stage
Johanna Hierzegger
Sound design
Moke Klengel

Production director
Dominik Jutz
Production
Roland Gfrerer
Technical director
Martin Schachner


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