A quiet room, a window, a recurring thought: Marlen Haushofer's relentless introspection becomes a gripping psychological chamber drama at the Schauspielhaus Graz. Between memory, conjecture, and distorted truths, an oppressive space of possibility opens up, in which guilt, responsibility, and self-deception constantly clash.
A woman stands at the window and thinks – about herself, about her family, and above all about the causes of a tragic incident that has forever destroyed the carefully guarded peace and order of her life. While everything continues as usual on the outside, Anna tries to figure out what happened. It all began when a friend entrusted her with the care of 19-year-old Stella. With crime-novel-like suspense, the narrator reels off the events in her mind's eye, while asking herself the big question of guilt and responsibility. However, her relentlessly repetitive self-accusations raise the question of how reliable this narrative and the narrator herself are. Is there perhaps a story behind the story, in which things reveal themselves in a different light?
As a director and author, Jakab Tarnóczi is interested in this space of possibility, which always emerges in Haushofer's novella, as well as in her entire body of work.
Marlen Haushofer is one of Austria's most important authors, yet despite regular rediscoveries of her work, her literary stature remains largely underestimated. As part of our successfully established program line of expanding and consolidating our repertoire, we are bringing her to the big stage of the Schauspielhaus in a specially written theater adaptation.
Premiere February 6,
Further performances: February 25, March 5, 11, 13, 21, 22, and 24, 2026
