Last Productions
& Press report

PREMIERE: 25. November 2025 - T I C K E T S

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PREMIERE: 25. November 2025 - T I C K E T S 🦇

@ Odeon Theater, Vienna

Freibier @ Progress Festival #17, Pürbach

Noen.at: „A lavish celebration marking the end of democracy.“ - Vanessa Reichenauer

📷 Johannes Bode

@ Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach

Kulturvision.de: „Assistant »Yvonne«, initially portrayed as hasty and dutiful by Yvonne Brandstetter, transforms into an avenger through acrobatic contortions. She's as fed up with her job as she is with death. So it's no surprise that the two swap roles.“ - Monika Ziegler

📷 Günter Macho

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Tanz.at: „Kane, on the other hand, turns against herself. Self-doubt, fear, shame, and unbearable feelings of guilt drive her to self-punishment, self-harm, and ultimately self-destruction through suicide. Yvonne Brandstetter has developed a close, convincing rapport with this role, which she also plays in a recorded short film, allowing the intellectual prowess of Sarah, who speaks with a delightful English accent, and the depths of her wounded, torn soul to be palpable.“ - Rando Hannemann

Falter.at: „A succesful approach to the incomprehensible.“ - Wera Hippesroither

📷 Günter Macho

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Tanz.at: „Ernst Kurt Weigel and his bernhard.ensemble succeed in creating a highly explosive and yet eternally relevant, masterfully staged and performed piece of political theater that mercilessly penetrates the rotten entrails of a highly endangered society and, with its immense emotional impact, aims precisely at the source of action: the distorted images of reality congealed from thoughts, the perceived realities.“ - Rando Hannemann

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Literaturoutdoors.com: „Yvonne Brandstetter, now a major fixture in the bernhard.ensemble, plays "Maria" with extraordinary power, precision, and variation. It's a whirlwind, a hurricane indeed, of dark emotion and violence that the exceptional actress unleashes, leaving the audience breathless.“ - Walter Pobaschnig

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

European-cultural-news.com: „The carnivorous, terrifying rabbit, which irritatingly stalked the audience upon entry and is Jason's constant companion, might cite Monty Python, Alice in Wonderland, or even the killer rabbit marginalia in medieval manuscripts as its models. The etymology of its alternatively used word, "rabbit," comes from the Latin cuniculus, which translates as "subterranean passage." Applied to the wild cast of characters in Natural.Born.Medea, one could casually argue with the prison warden that "evil is in the brain," or express the rabbit metaphor differently: In the depths of the subconscious, evil lurks.“ - Michaela Preine

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Kijuku.at: „The twin sisters, who have also "emerged" from the film, have also appeared in many bizarre and even bloody performances at various points throughout the tour – mostly based on real anecdotes from the history of the fringe theater, usually offstage. Yvonne Brandstetter and Leonie Wahl (who also choreographed the piece) play these two characters, who sometimes act with violent physical force.“ - Heinz Wagner

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Literaturoutdoors.com:„With this very bold project, the director, choreographer, and ensemble have achieved a theatrical feat of mashing up two of the most important literary, dramatic, and cinematic works of modernity, paving the way for new directions in both interpretation and conception. The distinctive signature of the director, choreographer, and ensemble is clearly recognizable, transforming the theme and scene into a captivating, dynamic soundscape of body and language.“ - Walter Pobaschnig

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Kulturfuechsin.com: „All of this would be difficult to bear if there weren't one thing that makes life's bitterness more bearable—humor. Experience has shown that there's no shortage of humor in the bernhard.ensemble's pieces. "The Semmelweis Reflex" also relies on comedy, peppered with plenty of crude expressions. Leonie Wahl's choreography, however, proves particularly expressive. Female bodies fighting for their lives twitch on operating tables, a Semmelweis swinging like Tarzan on an umbilical cord, and a singing vagina hovering in the center even transform the autopsy room/delivery room into a kind of circus arena.“ - Sandra Schäfer

@ OFF Theater, Vienna

Falter.at: „Newcomers to the ensemble, Sophie Resch and Yvonne Brandstetter, particularly impress in their dual roles as beautiful robots and ugly real people. Overall, the successful integration of Schwab's language into improvised text excerpts is impressive.“ - Martin Pesl