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.
Stage
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, Joh...
Stage
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...
Stage
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 clos...
Cover Stories
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 K...
Culture
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....
December/January 2015/2016
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 Engli...
Film
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 an...
Film
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 ...
Film
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 ...
Film
Viennale 2015 – Part V: Migration, Diaspora and Loss –Portraits of the Banlieu, Theodore Bikel and ...
Tonight it was the Urania, the former planetarium and cultural center of the waning Imperial years. Here you sit far more than a living room's distan...
Film
Viennale 2015 – Part IV: In Gartenbau, J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year
As a serious Viennale devotee with a list of must-see of films, utility often wins over comfort. I usually make a bee line for the front row, while e...
Film
Viennale 2015 – Part III: Drama, Documentary and an Astonishing Debut
Austria's National holiday on Monday 26th October prompted a stimulating programme at the Gartenbau, hosting films specially chosen for the occasion. ...
Film
Viennale 2015 – Part II: The Magic of the Very Big Screen
Viennale Blog - Part II: The Magic of the Very Big ScreenAs show time approaches, the lobby of the Gartenbau is a sizzle of excitement, the buzz o...
Film
VIENNALE 2015-Part I: The Seduction of Cinema
Autumn. Vienna. The season and this film-set-city host their annual ephemeral light show, a last minute will o’ the wisp before the Winter curtain dra...
