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Source: http://www.eif.co.uk/2001/ ________________________________________ Edinburgh International Festival 2001 Alte Meister (Old Masters) by Thomas Bernhard BURGTHEATER, VIENNA Performed in German with English supertitles Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 August 7.30pm ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr Reger, a music critic, had a very peculiar habit. For thirty years he visited the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna every second day, sitting in front of the same Tintoretto painting. In Alte Meister, adapted from a novel by one of Austria's major writers, four biographers fight to understand their dead hero. As they squabble and compete they study Mr Reger's grandiose speeches about Art and Nature, Life and Death, Heaven and Hell, Happiness and Depression, Austria and the rest of the world… The Vienna Burgtheater The Vienna Burgtheater is one of the world's great theatre companies. It rarely tours - astonishingly this visit marks its British debut. This short residency offers the opportunity to experience two recent productions which demonstrate at least some of the range of this great company. This and Luc Bondy's production of Chekov's The Seagull. '...the theatre capital of Europe...'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'Many of the best German speaking actors to be seen are in Vienna, taken to the peak of their ability through the directing, of among others, Luc Bondy...' Frankfurter Rundschau Actors Urs Hefti Hanspeter Müller Edmund Telgenkämper Adrian Furrer Stephan Müller Director Claudia Hamm Co-director Siegfried A Mayer Set Design Miro Paternostro Costumes Price: £6 - £22.50 Running time approx 1hr 45mins Website: www.burgtheater.at Related festival events: Festival Insights - The Burgtheater, Vienna Sunday 26 August 10.00am - 1.00pm THE HUB An examination of the history and work of this great theatre. Participants include Stephan Müller, director of Alte Meister and Professor Andrew Barker, Chair of Austrian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Price: £6 Running time approx 3 hours Klaus Bachler Director of the Burgtheater - in conversation Wednesday 29 August THE HUB Price: £4 Running time approx 50 mins The Seagull by Anton Chekhov BURGTHEATER, VIENNA Performed in German with English supertitles Wed 29 - Fri 31 August 7.30pm & Sat 1 September 6.30pm KING'S THEATRE