{"id":7061,"date":"2025-08-11T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinormond.com\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:16:11","slug":"die-nacht-kurz-vor-den-waldern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinormond.com\/en\/die-nacht-kurz-vor-den-waldern\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Just Before the Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Night Just Before the Forests<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Bernard-Marie Kolt\u00e8s \u2013 Burgtheater Wien (Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, 2023)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man speaks to a stranger who never answers.
Through the night, his words become a wandering \u2014 an attempt to connect, a cry of love and anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With actor Michael W\u00e4chter<\/strong>, Robin Ormond stages Kolt\u00e8s\u2019s monologue as a physical passage: an address into the void, suspended between solitude and the longing to belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text: Bernard-Marie Kolt\u00e8s
Direction: Robin Ormond
Costume: Anna Gillis
Dramaturgy: Lena Wontorra
Performer: Michael W\u00e4chter
Production: Burgtheater Wien \u2013 Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9\ufe0f Cr\u00e9dit photo : Tommy Hetzel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christina B\u00f6ck, Kurier, 28 Sept 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cYou wonder how this play could ever have been staged in any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ronald Pohl, Der Standard, 28 Sept 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cUnder Robin Ormond\u2019s direction, Kolt\u00e8s\u2019s The Night Just Before the Forests<\/em> becomes a marvellous city-wide performance.
Michael W\u00e4chter draws the audience through Vienna\u2019s inner streets as the text turns into a conversation with the city itself \u2013 between loneliness, vertigo and defiance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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