New cabaret program

Antonia Stabinger makes genitals sing

Antonia Stabinger(Bild: Christoph Hartner)

As part of the duo Flüsterzweieck, Antonia Stabinger has been performing on local cabaret stages for many years. Now she presents her first solo program, "Angenehm", at the Theatercafe in Graz.

It is truly a balancing act that Graz cabaret artist Antonia Stabinger is undertaking in her first solo program after the dissolution of her duo Flüsterzweieck: On the one hand, she wants everyone to have a pleasant evening; on the other, she wants to speak some unpleasant truths about being a woman.

However, the AI, which is on stage with her and analyzes the audience for her, advises her not to do this. So she has to come up with detours to "get her message across anyway" and slips into a wide variety of roles in a furious revue of numbers.

This is how you get to know Mrs. Backup, who is behind every successful man but dreams of having her own attitude. You can watch a womanizer verbally fail at feminism ("We have to do something about the gender gay pap") and hear relationship tips from the hippie grandma ("Sex is like apple strudel, it's usually best homemade"). And Stabinger offers her new starring role a big stage: "Clit/Doris", who talks and sings bluntly about bees and flowers ("The penis is the little man's clitoris").

The result is a thoroughly successful evening of cabaret - clever, punchy and full of wonderfully quirky ideas.