Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen: "Die 7 Tage von Mariahaim"

South Tyrol 1965: Anna-Lisa, a farmer's daughter, is preparing for her wedding to Johannes, a farmhand, when the past bursts into her life. Two unwelcome guests show up in the village and with them the memory of a gruesome crime. The idyll gradually disintegrates, and the silence that has lasted for generations descends on the inhabitants with violence and hatred. What was supposed to end with a wedding begins with a funeral banquet. The spectators become the wedding guests and, relive in retrospect the "seven days of Mariahaim" (Die 7 Tage von Mariahaim), which change everyone and everything.

The immersive theater ensemble Nesterval considers itself a queer folk theater. At the heart of each production is the desire to play, the creation of a theatrical experience and the involvement of the audience in the performance. "Die 7 Tage von Mariahaim" is a version of the play "Das Dorf," nominated for the Nestroy Prize in 2019, adapted for Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen and Festival Transart. Viewers embark on a search for the magic of the place of nostalgia that is "Heimat": home and homeland, and explore big questions inherent in foreignness, violence, love and guilt. The concept of gender and role models are blurred and the idea of "Heimat" is opened to a pluralistic society.