Today we will perform our theater play Ritzen in Wels, to be exact at the Alter Schl8hof.

Since i´ve been on a shooting in Croatia last week i´m really getting used to live in hotels. It´s a nice alternation to be on a trip for some time…

I particularly enjoyed the train ride, i spent the two hour trip with reading the screenplay of Juno. For our first meeting of the writers group we decided to read that script since it´s from a first time author and it won the oscar right away.

I´ll post some notes on Juno later on, now it´s time to get something to eat and then rehears the play once again before the performance starts at 8 pm.

It´s over. And it has been great!

I´ve been really edgy about the premiere, it was the first theater play i directed, but it all went really well. The performance of Christian was breathtaking, the audience gave us really nice feedback and there was not a single problem during the whole evening – better than we expected it.

One of the things i feared the most was that the author Walter Kohl wouldn´t like the play, but he did!

So our next goal is the staging on the 1st of March, let´s hope the resonance will be so well again.

On Saturday, 9th Feb. 08, our theater play Ritzen will premiere. I´m already a little bit edgy, the topic is quite heavy and the play itself as well, but nevertheless, i´m really looking forward to the premiere.

The actor Christian Krall is doing an extraordinary job and even after hours of rehearsing the performance gives me a cold chill. The reactions of the first few people who saw the play were also very positive, so it really should work out well.

The theater holds up to 88 people and we´re quite full yet, if you wan´t to catch some last tickets you should hurry now, or just visit the next performance on March 1st.

As previously posted i am working on a theater play together with the actor Christian Krall. The original script was written by Walter Kohl for a female actress, i adapted the script for a male actor.

The play is about a teenager with a troubled youth who’s life is mostly about drugs and hurting himself. It is quite heavy stuff, a very interesting character study about a person concerned and it sheds some light on the feelings and desires of the teenager.

The website for ritzen can be found under www.ritzen.at.

We will start to perform the play from beginning of 2008, if you are interested in the schedule you can subscribe to the newsletter on the page.