Tales From Vienna Woods

Adapted & Directed by Caroline Steinbeis

Lighting Design Johanna Town

RADA Vanbrugh Theatre

Tales from the Vienna Woods charts the systemic destruction of a young woman against the picture postcard setting of an idyllic Austria lurching towards fascism. Caroline Steinbeis’s new version draws darkly comic and razor sharp parallels to our current shifting political landscape.

Ödön von Horváth’s inter-war play contrasts the sentimental backdrop of a Johann Strauss waltz, and the Vienna Woods that give the tune its name, with the oncoming tide of political and social upheaval.