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Oscar spectacle and Burgtheater premiere: an evening full of emotions!
On March 3rd, “kulturMontag” will highlight the Oscars 2025 and the premiere of “The McNeal Case” at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Oscar spectacle and Burgtheater premiere: an evening full of emotions!
On March 3, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON, Clarissa Stadler's “kulturMontag” will provide a review of this year's Oscar night. The focus is on the winners and losers. People are particularly excited about Brady Corbet's film project “The Brutalist,” which is considered a favorite and is entering the Oscar race with a Jewish architect as the protagonist. Another highlight is the musical thriller “Emilia Pérez”, which is in the crossfire of criticism due to the striking nominations for the leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón, especially because of her controversial tweets. The political dimension is underlined by the return of Donald Trump and his departure from gender ideology. “kulturMontag” will shed more light on these developments with a live broadcast to Los Angeles orf.at reported.
Premiere of “The McNeal Case”
At the same time, the German-language premiere of the play “The McNeal Case” by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar will take place on March 1st in Vienna’s Burgtheater. The production highlights toxic masculinity through the portrayal of the privileged Jacob McNeal, embodied by Joachim Meyerhoff and Felix Kammerer in a complex father-son relationship. The piece questions the power structures between the genders and deals with current technologies such as artificial intelligence. Meyerhoff and Kammerer, two audience favorites, are returning to the stage, with Kammerer currently coming off the Oscar success of “Nothing New in the West”, which further increases the expectations of the production ots.at determines.
Ulli Lust's graphic novel “Woman as a Human”
Another exciting topic in “kulturMontag” is the graphic novel “Woman as a Human” by Ulli Lust, which addresses the role of women in history through a feminist perspective. This work illuminates 10,000 years of human development and presents women as central figures who often remain invisible in historically distorted narratives. The publication stands in stark contrast to current social debates about gender roles and emancipation and calls for an examination of patriarchal myths. What is particularly remarkable is how Lust addresses equality in the Stone Age and thus sheds new light on female perspectives. With this graphic novel, she calls for a reassessment of historiography and raises awareness of the often overlooked achievements of women ots.at are long overdue.