Rehnitz

2015

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) Brooklyn, NY

Rechnitz (The Exterminating Angel)
By Elfriede Jelinek

Workshop production
Directed by Tea Alagic
Performed by T. Ryder Smith
Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn, NY
Translated by Gitta Honegger
Sound design by Jane Shaw
Assistant director: Celine Rosenthal
Stage Manager: Richard A. Hodge
Produced by Theatre for a New Audience
Special thanks to Jonathan Kalb and Kazunori Ishizuka
May 18 – June 1, 2015

Mercury Store Residency for Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek

Translation by Gitta Honegger October 2024
Video Projection Designer: Tal Yarden
Dramaturg: Amauta M. Firmino
Stage Manager: Taylor Suffridge
Actors:, Amy Webb, Delaney Feeney, Jovan Davis, Karina Curet, Rahmell Peebles, Robbie Tolentino, Monica Sanborn, Zachary Desmond

Tea Alagić Studio

Status: In development

About the Work:
Rechnitz (The Exterminating Angel) is a play by Elfriede Jelinek inspired by the 1945 massacre of Jewish forced laborers in Rechnitz, Austria. Through fragmented language, shifting voices, and fractured testimony, the work confronts historical amnesia, fascism, complicity, and collective denial.

Tea Alagić directed a workshop production of the play at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn in 2015, produced by Theatre for a New Audience. She later returned to Rechnitz through the Mercury Store Residency in 2024.

AUTHOR

Tea Alagić

TEA ALAGIĆ is an internationally recognized theater director, playwright, actor, producer, and educator known for bold, text-driven productions that bring together groundbreaking new writing, contemporary classics, and innovative theatrical forms.

Her work combines rigorous attention to language with visual imagination and a distinctive collaborative process, and has been presented across Europe and North America.

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