At Vienna's Burgtheater, audiences are treated to a hilarious yet profound revue of humanity: Thornton Wilder's We've Got Away with It Again combines fantastic scenes and apocalyptic catastrophes to create a parable about survival, crisis, and an unshakeable belief in humanistic values.
The Antrobus family would like to live peacefully in their New Jersey suburb, but three times in a row they are confronted with apocalyptic scenarios such as an ice age, a flood, and war. Despite these tremendous catastrophes, the family proves to be remarkably resilient and always finds ways to emerge from the chaos into a new life. In this revue of humanity, space and time seem to be suspended: a dinosaur and a mammoth graze in the front yard, while Homer and Moses seek asylum and great philosophers appear as celestial bodies in a nocturnal round dance.
Shortly before the United States entered World War II, Thornton Wilder wrote this hilarious and at the same time profound play, which quickly became a global hit. Behind the often grotesque situational comedy lies the insight that evil is always part of human existence, while at the same time the belief in humanistic values and the unconditional will to live takes center stage.
Premiere March 20, 2026
