herbst cabaret
Annina Machaz
Guest production
Zämerisse! (Pull Yourself Together!, 2024)
Horror, hope, and humor form a common thread in Annina Machaz’s show, which transforms Forum Stadtpark’s basement into a dungeon. Creepy figures haunt us in this chamber and wrap us around their fingers. Machaz’s characters wear homemade hats and papier-mâché masks and bring along poems and texts from their homeland, their Heimat. Poetry and slapstick shake hands, while, from afar, you can hear the artist playing a farewell on the alpenhorn. On this evening, fantasy is also autobiographical.
In English and German.
Dramaturgy: Mira Kandathil
Musical direction: Stefan Schneider
Double bill with Alex Franz Zehetbauer.
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Annina Machaz (1985, Zurich, Switzerland) is an actress and theater-maker who creates her own stage sets, papier-mâché characters, and absurd texts. As a performer, she has worked and toured with Ivo Dimchev, Ann Liv Young, and Florentina Holzinger, among others. Her works have been shown at Theater Neumarkt and Theater HORA, Zurich, among others. In addition to her theater work, Machaz has also participated in several film productions and organized two exhibitions of her own artworks (paintings and sculptures). She lives in Zurich.
For the third year in a row, steirischer herbst turns to cabaret and its capacity for gritty, gutsy social criticism. Six performances present a mix of burlesque, street chanson, stand-up, and macabre poetry in the intimate setting of Forum Stadtpark’s basement.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ24. With the kind support of the Swiss Embassy in Austria.
