All of the moments that we should have lived, should have lived differently – but how? Did we really have a choice, could we have acted, handled situations or coped with them by using a trick? The young Argentinian director Mariano Pensotti, who staged Johannes Schrettle’s short play “kollege von niemand” at steirischer herbst two years ago, has asked authors from around the world to contribute entries to his “Encyclopaedia of unlived life”. He is now joining these very different original contributions – prose, poetry, drama, theory, whether a few sentences or two or three pages long – to create a playful evening of theatre, bringing the unlived to life on the stage of the Schauspielhaus in Graz: comic, sad, brutal, gentle, mysterious, concrete; and every moment missed accompanied with its own background melody.

Our life and work today are usually activities with no concrete product. We must master them with virtuosity. The “Encyclopaedia of unlived life” collects that which would have been virtuoso, the true, non-judgemental mastery of life: a couple kissing to the Velvet Underground, a man with terminal illness sees his friends crying – Gustav Mahler in the background, a family dies in a hail of bullets while Queens of the Stone Age play, the hand on the thigh of an unknown neighbour on the underground, one day in September 2006, accompanied by Scott Walker. Everything comes true. Private and public, faith, sex, sport, fame, violence, revenge, death. Neatly categorised from A to Z.

Regie: Mariano Pensotti
Konzept / Idee: Mariano Pensotti
Musik: Diego Vainer
Bühnenbild, Ausstattung, Raumgestaltung: Mariana Tirantte
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Rahul Chakraborty
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Sophie Hottinger
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Verena Lercher
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Claire Sobottke
Schauspielerin / Schauspieler: Leon Ullrich
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Lola Arias
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Dietmar Dath
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: John Jesurun
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Klaus Händl
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Alexander Kluge
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Friederike Mayröcker
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Rabih Mroué
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Romina Paula
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Alan Pauls
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Mariano Pensotti
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Kathrin Röggla
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Ivana Sajko
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Clemens J. Setz
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Andrzej Stasiuk
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Gerhild Steinbuch
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Marcus Steinweg
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Stocker Darja
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Juan Villoro
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Josef Vogl
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Eyal Weizman
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Elfriede Jelinek

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