"Ein Narrentanz"
TIROLER VOLKSSCHAUSPIELE
written by Thomas Gassner
directed by Thomas Gassner

August 2023

Viktoria starred on stage as a persecuted, jewish girl

https://www.volksschauspiele.at/programm/ein-narrentanz/

https://www.meinbezirk.at/telfs/c-lokales/ein-narrentanz-mit-den-sieben-kardinaltugenden-oder-der-anstand-ist-tot-in-dieser-welt_a6191906

https://www.tiroltoday.at/beitrag/ein-narrentanz/

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"Ich fühls nicht"
TIROLER LANDESTHEATER
written by Liv Strömquist
directed by Susanne Schmelcher

April/May 2023

Viktoria was on stage as the camerawoman

https://www.landestheater.at/blog/ich-fuehls-nicht/

https://www.landestheater.at/produktion/ich-fuehls-nicht/

https://www.theaterkompass.de/beitraege/oesterreichischen-erstauffuehrung-ich-fuehls-nicht-nach-dem-comic-von-liv-stroemquist-tiroler-landestheater-innsbruck-58069

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"A Comedy of Tenors"
written by Ken Ludwig
directed by Manfred Schild

January/February/March 2023


Viktoria was on stage as the protagonist's daughter "Mimi Merelli"

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"Lapin LAPIN" (Hase HASE)
written by Coline Serreau,
directed by Luka Oberhammer, Theatergruppe Oberhofen

June/July 2022

"Laughter must be saved"

This play is about the family Hase, who lives in precarious circumstances. No money, no work but at least a mother who keeps it all together by having a big mouth and an even bigger heart.

The youngest, who is actually an alien, is sent to Earth to save humanity, the eldest is almost a doctor and the three other siblings already left the house.

Then, out of nowhere, everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong. The three siblings have to come back home, in a one and a half room apartment for the whole family. The family is now confronted with failed weddings, the state police who are searching for the sons, and a lonely neighbor, who demands company and attention.

It is understandable that a mother can lose her nerves in such a situation, but she never loses her humor and certainly not her values.

This insane play swings like life itself between being wonderfully silly and profound.

Is it worth saving mankind?

Cast:

Andrea Breit as Maman
Manfred Brötz as Papa
Laura as Hase
Viktoria Castellano as Lucie
Marcus Freiler as Gérard
Philipp Walser as Jeannot
Dieter Seelos as Bébert
Tamara Baumann as Marie
Romain Hoffmann as Madame Duperri
Alexander Hausberger as the Police officer

Directed by Luka Oberhammer


Assistant Director: Gabi Walser
Stage design: Johannes Schlack
Costume design: Brunhilde Schatz
Make up: Lena Tonezzer
Music by Dieter Seelos
Lighting: Lioban Possnig & Christoph Stecher
Sound: Simon Schnabl

Stage Construction: Romain Hoffman, Lioban Possnig, Andrea and Andre Breit, Alexander Hausberger, Lena Tonezzer, Seppi Schatz

Graphic Design: Tamara Baumann
Catering: Helene Steinhauser & Brunhilde Schatz

All rights reserved to
HENSCHEL Schauspiel
Theaterverlag Berlin GmbH

https://www.meinbezirk.at/telfs/c-lokales/wasserstoff-21-und-ein-maman-manifest-im-reasnhof_a5394640

https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/14139517/Hase-Hase-in-Oberhofen/15184819

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"Mein Freund Harvey"
Boulevard, written by Mary Chase
directed by Luka Oberhammer, Innsbrucker Ritterspiele

January/February 2022

Viktoria as nurse "Kelly" in a mental hospital. This funny and dynamic play was a great success on Broadway in the 40's.
Re-staged for the "Innsbrucker Ritterspiele" and directed by Luka Oberhammer.

https://www.meinbezirk.at/innsbruck/c-lokales/verrueckt-oder-einfach-nur-clever-mein-freund-harvey_a5119240

All rights reserved to
Felix Blocherben Verlag Berlin

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ProVideo News.TV
Projekttheater Hall in Tirol,
directed by Kurt Benkovic

October 2021

The young Tyrolean author Sarah Milena Rendel (born in 1992) dealt with the impact of the pandemic on private news television in 2020. As a result, she wrote a comedy that illuminates the gender roles of both men and women in this work field. The transmission of news in permanent live broadcasts offers quite a few surprises and due to the isolation to the world, lots of intrigues can be spun in order to rise up the career ladder.

Cast:

Viktoria Castellano, starring as
Anna Turner, Studio director

Vanessa Eberharter, starring as
Drine Mampf, Anna’s assistant

Ulrich Schaaf, News reporter - Bruno Graber

Erik Pütz, Technical assistant - Marco Schmitzer

Sanne Lustig, science editor - Nadja Glugovski

Eva, Lifestyle reporter - Martina Frötscher

Lange, Broadcast manager - Benjamin Nicolussi-Castellan

Marina Martina, Federal Chancellor, Minister of science - Christina Nessmann

Kasimir Koblar, scientific expert - Jochen Hampl

Friedrich, Director - Arthur Bliem

Light and Sound - Arthur Bliem

Stage design - Peter Holzer

Video - Sarah Milena Rendel & Team

Music - Klex Wolf

Furniture maker - Erwin Schreckensperger

Written by Sarah Milena Rendel

http://www.projekttheater-hall.at/portfolio/provideonews-tv

https://www.meinbezirk.at/hall-rum/c-lokales/hierarchiekaempfe-im-tv_a4924549

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Maria. Königin
Projekttheater Hall in Tirol,
directed by Kurt Benkovic

October/November/December 2019

Due to the #metoo debate in 2018, the Tyrolean author Lina Hofstädter dealt with the life of Maria Stuart. She focused on the Scottish Queen’s younger years - starting from where Maria becomes queen of France at the age of 17. After her Husband’s death, she returns to Scotland and reigns there until she has to flee to England at the age of 26. In the 16th century, Scotland and England were both ruled by women. Folks and nobility considered this a violation to the natural order – where the man is the crown of creation and head of the family. A woman must submit to his will.

The author illustrates the principle of the patriarchal society at that time and allows us to draw parallels to our today’s world.

Cast:

Viktoria Castellano starring as Maria Stuart

François/Riccio - Joseph Villinger

Katharina/Lady/Maid - Eva Kuster

James Steward/Morton - René Orbini

Maitland/Man - Erich Thummer

John Knox/Man - Bruno Graber

Lord Darnley - Lukas Singer

Mary Seton/Lady/Maid - Vanessa Eberharter

Earl of Bothwell - Jakob Rosin

Maid - Astrid Oberwimmer

Bodyguard - Benjamin Nicolussi-Castellan

Stage & lighting design - Peter Holzer Kurt Benkovic

Light and Sound - Arthur Bliem

Costumes - LEA-Production school

Music - Klemens Wolf, Hanno Winder

Video - Christoph Lunzer, Sarah Rendel, Phillipp Walser

Furniture maker - Erwin Schreckensperger

Production assistant - Fred Salvator

Direction, overall management - Kurt Benkovic

Written by Lina Hofstädter

http://www.projekttheater-hall.at/portfolio/maria-koenigin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMJhbl3TyM

https://www.meinbezirk.at/hall-rum/c-lokales/theaterauffuehrung-mariakoenigin_a3719580

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Wias kimm’t“
Bogentheater Innsbruck,
directed by Katharina Schwaiger

October/November 2018

In the early 1960s, a boy and a girl fall in love with each other. As a result, she gets unexpectedly pregnant. But back then, having a child as an unmarried couple was a sin. The girl’s strict mother insists on a quick wedding, preferably before the child gets born. The young couple tries, therefore, to fix a wedding date with the local pastor – which turns out to be more difficult than expected.

Cast:

The girl - Viktoria Castellano

The boy - Jakob Rosin

Mother - Sandra Klein

Pastor - Simon Hölzl

Directed by
Jakob RosinKatharina Schwaiger

Written by Stephanie Larcher-Senn

https://www.bogentheater.at/archiv/138/querkopfe

https://www.bogentheater.at/verein/team

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Cyrano de Bergerac"
Haller Burgsommer
directed by Elmar Drexel

June 2017

In this romantic-comedic drama, Viktoria cast the role as the “girl who sells flowers” – again at the side of Brigitte Jaufenthaler, Ronja Forcher and the ensemble “Theaterhaufen Hall”.

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Allegory of pain for the opening of the vernissage “SENS IT (L) IVE”,
by Lisa Wöss

October 2017

Location: DIE BÄCKEREI, Innsbruck

Viktoria staged the pain and the birth of art

https://www.liz-aw-visualization.com/exhibitions-references/2017-sens-it-l-ive/

PERFORMANCE TEXT (OPENING TEXT) 

Pictures, consisting of lines, dots, and forms which are sums of points. Of wound points. Of pain points.

Art is born in pain. Birth is pain. 

Opening the eyes of this body you live in for this world facing gravity is pain. 

Pain leads to opened eyes, to opened senses if you do not try to avoid it because you interpret fear in a wrong way. Fear is the Signal of pain. 

If we could avoid gravity, we would. So we try to avoid pain, which is impossible when it comes to life.

Pain is the inverse vector of gravity, conjunction, the spin of life.

Solving the everything into the nothing, binding the nothing into the everything in every direction and the other way around. A round melting to origin.

If the smallest we can visualize is a point, then the point could widen into a circle. 

Both have no beginning and no end. Beginning and end are human creations out of fear, interpreting this signal in a blind way by not looking at it. Stop trying to value or devalue feelings for not having to stop anymore, for being able to grow, for being in the flow. Imagine all minds as points in a waving picture, always changing their form. 

Pain is a feeling, feelings are the only things that are real, for sure. Surreal surrounding point of view in a picture that can be visualized, seen, sensed and felt. Feelings are the constant of human beings, the connection in the solvation. 

Pain gives birth. Birth gives pain. The imagination of beginning and end has been dissolved by sensing the picture of gravity and pain.

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Frau Suitner“
Haller Burgsommer,
directed by Elmar Drexel,
written by Andre Schönherr

June 2016

Frau Suitner is an elderly lady who feels unworthy because she had never given birth to a child. Despite the fact that she managed to afford a debt-free life through hard work, she feels guilty and sorry for herself and her husband. Despite her tremendous jealousy, she takes the decision to drive him towards a girlish young woman - so at least he can have his own family.

Viktoria played the doctor’s secretary, at the side of Brigitte Jaufenthaler, Ronja Forcher and the ensemble “Theaterhaufen Hall”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OH-mx8wBU