Brian Hatfield
Brian is an Australian Director/Actor/Teacher/Writer, resident in Vienna, who has recently founded a local ensemble, "Beyond Down Under Theatre". He has reviewed two Viennales and has trained, and worked, in ballet, theatre, film, television and Opera. He has a Masters of Arts.
An Eccentric Irish Take on Romance Takes the Stage in “Outside Mullingar”
Love's Labor's Not Lost: Outside Mullingar is somewhat mired in its continental premiere.
A poetic riff on loneliness, self-abnegation and love, John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar bristles with rural Irish eccentricity and romance. But then...
Lifting the Veil
The Vienna Theatre Project puts on Ayad Akhtar’s The Who and the What, where logos, mythos and gender intersectFour actors and a director huddle around a table, poised over scripts with pencils in one...
Twelve Nights to Remember
Vienna’s English Theatre presents Twelfth Nights in an uneven yet endearing versionAs the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death draws to a close, his inexplicable absence has been noted at Vienna’s English Theatre (VET). Yet...
Cover Story: Reimagining The Self
Vienna’s dramatists have a long, brilliant and turbulent history. But no year was quite so momentous as 1929, the year modernity was born.Hedwig Kiesler was determined to act. She had traveled all the way...
On Stage: Family Matters – Performance
The .EVOLve Theater company delves into the love that bindsMs. Barbara Wolfram glides into Café Goldegg, a stone’s throw from Belvedere Palace. No jewelry or make up. Nothing fancy. She takes a moment. Gently...
On Stage: The Rain in Vain
Vienna’s English Theatre’s Pygmalion is enjoyable, but fails to capture the true Shavian spiritGeorge Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at Vienna’s English Theatre is selling out to full houses, with audiences relishing the wit, and applauding...
Viennale 2015 – Part VIII: Drowning in the Wake of Charybdis
The Viennale ‘15 has well and truly come to a close. The first Viennale was way back in 1960, before many of us were born – about the time of black and white television.As...
Viennale 2015 – Part VII: Mentors, Monsters and Demagogues.
In the opening exposition of Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, philosophy lecturer Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) muses on the problem of sustaining Emanuel Kant’s categorical imperative in a post-modern world: How could any of us...
Viennale 2015 – Part VI: Redemption, Dystopia and Fading Talent, or, Stanislawsky was right
All Hallows Eve at the Metro Kino, vintage filmmaker Kim Longinotto was there in person, to introduce her latest documentary Dreamcatcher. Looking up at the brass wall sconces, she couldn’t help but comment: “How...
