Violenza 2025

by Michiel Vandevelde, Pankaj Tiwari and Eneas Prawdzic Dates
Violenza 2025, Lessingtage
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Technical triggers: loud music, theatre smoke, flashing lights Content triggers: this performance contains explicit racist, sexist, and far-right language.

They are dissatisfied, reject today's social order, and recently voted for the right wing: young men. Hardly any other demographic contributes more to the rise of right-wing parties—both globally and here in Germany. After working with left-wing youth, Vandevelde, Tiwari, and Prawdzic have now immersed themselves in the opposing milieu. The result is a combative and physical theater piece featuring five young men. They demand an end to liberal democracy and believe they will soon be in the majority.

Violenza 2025 is “a powerful, at times almost unbearable warning” (Salzburger Nachrichten), a disturbing preview of what could happen if their predictions prove correct.

 

 

Actors Jakob, Lukas, Max, Nick, and Rafael

Directed by Eneas Prawdzic, Pankaj Tiwari, and Michiel Vandevelde

Choreography, set design, and lighting by Michiel Vandevelde
Technical support by Maxim Van Meerhaeghe
Surtitles by Anna Leader

 

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst '25

With the kind support of the Government of Flanders and Gaulhofer Industrie-Holding

    Dates

    Sa 7.2.26
    • 19.00-20.20, Thalia Theater
      German with English surtitles

      Violenza 2025

      by Michiel Vandevelde, Pankaj Tiwari and Eneas Prawdzic
      Tickets
      from 25 € / red. from 14 €
    Su 8.2.26
    • 18.00-19.20, Thalia Theater
      German with English surtitles / afterwards Q&A

      Violenza 2025

      by Michiel Vandevelde, Pankaj Tiwari and Eneas Prawdzic
      Tickets
      from 25 € / red. from 14 €

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    Press quotes

    • Theater Der Zeit: “Und sie heißen nicht nur Trump, Erdogan, Putin oder Höcke. Es ist die Kunst des Teufels zu verführen. Mit einfachen Antworten auf stetig komplexer werdende Fragen. Wie diese Verführung ganz konkret a...
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    • rekto:verso: “Today, the question returns: under what masks, with what seductive rhetorics, does authoritarianism slip into the world once more? If we are indeed living in prewar times – a lament frequently heard ...
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    • Juliet Artmagazine: “The play Violenza 2025 by Michiel Vandevelde, Pankaj Tiwari and Eneas Prawdzic stands out indelibly in memory, based on a text derived from the combination of real textual material used in the contex...
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