From 26 July to 15 August there will be workshops for children and adults, plays, concerts, etc. Held in different indoor and outdoor locations. The Theatre ecce is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and for this reason the team has come up with a top-class programme with big names.
A total of 19 workshops will be held under the name “Palace of Wonders II” (mountains, garbage and dragons) for children, adults and adults from July 26-30. The participants expect a diverse program from the fields of acting, music, dance, juggling, acrobatics, land art, photography, radio and video art. Half-day and full-day tickets for the entire workshop week can be purchased at www.theater-ecce.com.
For the first time this year there will be an opening party in the Stadtpark Saalfelden on July 29th with the MMC (Mobile Music Club). On July 31st, the program will start at the Theater Tent in Leogang with “Der Drachenberg”. The family piece based on Chinese folk tales by Natalya Nishegorodtseva and Svetlana Alfiorova is a highlight for the whole family (from 5 years). The play offers more acrobatics than ever before. Bernard Pomerance's "The Elephant Man" returns to the theater tent Leogang. Also at the Kunsthaus Nexus, very special pieces are offered a stage: “Hidden Language”, a production of the b.m-w dance company, is about experimenting with the world of limitations, about the alienation in one’s own body shown by Parkinson’s disease. Before the performance, the doctor Dr. Johann Ebner gives insights into the disease.
Within the framework of the workshop series “Palace of Wonders II” there is an offer for people with neurological diseases. Furthermore, the theatre play “Im Einkauftempel / Ich Biomüll” with live music by the laureate of the “Grand Salzburger Kunstpreis 2020”, Robert Kainar, and his bandmate Klaus Kircher will take place at the Kunsthaus Nexus. A story about the shopping temple as a place of fulfilled and unfulfilled longings. “The Story of the Panda Bears” tells of a surreal love story between a saxophone player and his girlfriend in Frankfurt. Reinhold Tritscher from Theater ecce explains: “This performance can be described as a little gem. It inspires with poetic texts and a very special light painting by Remo Rauscher. To be seen on August 6th at Kunsthaus Nexus and on August 5th at Theater Lofer.” The German-language premiere of the comedy “Russian National Post” by Oleg Bogayev will also take place on two dates at the Nexus Saalfelden and Theater Lofer. “Esperanza – Hope” is the name of the dance theatre production at the Kunsthaus Nexus by and with Samira Kirschhofer. Another highlight is the concert by Peter Blaikner, Reinhold Kletzander and Ben Pascal under the name “KHAYYAM”, which will be held at the Museum Schloss Ritzen on August 8th.