TOUR DATES:
November 20th & 21st, 2015 @ MUJERES QUE CUENTAN Festival, in Santander, SPAIN (www.teatroabrego.com)

January 23rd, 2014 @ Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, in New York City, USA  (www.acfny.org)

November 2nd, 2013 @ UNITED SOLO Festival, Theatre Row, OFF – Broadway in New York City, USA (www.unitedsolo.org)

(Premiere) September 7th, 2013 @ DIVA Monodrama Festival, Tux-Center, in Tyrol, AUSTRIA (www.diva-tux.at)

ABOUT THE PLAY

Rebellion is an obligation not an option. In this modern world we have two options: Either to fall or to stand up. What if you had to choose? Leaving Ziller Valley tells the story of the young Tyrolean manager Elizabeth. Alienated and lost from jet-setting between high-end hotels from Paris to Shangai, she decides to stay in New York. Maybe in this city full of dreamers, she can find what she is looking for: a place that she can call home and where she can ultimately find herself. The sound of the homeless in the midst of an urban jungle.

“Home is the moment.”

A reflection about modern society and the struggle for the individual to create a HOME in a globalized, modern world. Inspired by European and American theatre traditions, Leaving Ziller Valley creates a new version of post-modern theatre. In remembrance of Berlin’s wild Frank Castorf and the meditativeness of Peter Brook, we invite to a mix of non-verbal, psychological theatre, performance art and Austrian humour. A rebellious, funny and nostalgic declaration of love to this journey called life.

PRESS:

“In this Julia Rosa Stöckl covered a wide range of states of mind, moods, and sounds, as she gave us a brave, honest, often ferocious account of what it’s like to live with a sense of local and national roots as they dissolve into and indeterminate corporate, global pool…….Stöckl, with her perfect English, her High German, and Tyrolese dialect, is a strong presence in all. The capacity audience at the ACFNY received the play with long, loud standing ovations. Frl. Stöckl has also performed Leaving Ziller Valley at Omar Sangare’s United Solo Theater Festival 2013. I can’t think of a better conduit for Austro-American understanding than a play like this, whether it appears in an Austrian cultural center or in a totally international context like the excellent United Solo.” – Michael Miller (New York Arts)

“Exquisitely Austrian! Not standing ovations, never ending ovations.” - Maren Krings (echtoimerisch.com)

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