Angry Hour // Sööt/Zeyringer (Austria)

Sööt/Zeyringer (Austria)

In Angry Hour the performance duo Sööt/Zeyringer approaches female anger in their usual minimalist style. They look at women in mythology, history, pop culture and everyday life who express anger: Serena Williams destroying her tennis racket after an argument with the referee, Martha Rosler using kitchen utensils in a threatening way in “Semiotics of the Kitchen”, or Carrie in the eponymous horror classic whose suppressed anger culminates in brutal revenge. Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer examine and deconstruct instances of female anger, they uncover the potential for empowerment as well as the destructive and self-destructive elements that anger can contain. Angry Hour is a collection of 28 forms of anger that together form an unstoppable storm of outrage.

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Concept and performance: Tiina Sööt, Dorothea Zeyringer 
Artistic assistance: Nora Jacobs, Emilia Lichtenwagner
Costume and graphic design: Daniela Grabosch
Technical assistance: Claudia Lomoschitz

Duration: 50’, no break

Age restrictions: 16+

A co-production by Sööt/Zeyringer, brut Wien and FREISCHWIMMEN, die Produktionsplattform für Performance and Theater, sustained by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, Schwankhalle Bremen, SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin and Theater Rampe Stuttgart, managed by SOPHIENSÆLE GmbH.

Supported by the Berlin Capital Cultural Fund. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport and the Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest.

Photo credits: Fabian Stemmer / Mayra Wallraff / Nora Jacobs / Sööt/Zeyringer

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