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Members of the audience can therefore choose to follow certain events, outcomes, and even individual characters from scene to scene, thus experiencing a uniquely personal version of Alma's life story. When Gustav Mahler dies halfway through the piece, his funeral can be followed interactively with
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The performance is not presented as a conventional theatre piece, but instead takes place throughout an entire building in simultaneous scenes highlighting the events and defining relationships of Alma's tumultuous life, with each playing area fully equipped with appropriate furniture and props.
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his music; and at the interval, the entire audience comes together at a buffet dinner featuring Austrian cuisine during which they can compare notes about what they have each experienced, and develop a fuller perspective of the biographical events.
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Protagonist Alma Mahler-Werfel was intimately connected to an astonishing list of the famous creative spirits of the 20th century. Not only was she married sequentially to composer
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is an example of site-specific promenade theatre (or more precisely a "polydrama") created by Israeli writer
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The production was also adapted as a three-part film.
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Joshua Sobol
Alma Mahler-Werfel
Paulus Manker
Josef Hoffmann
Purkersdorf
Vienna
Venice
Lisbon
Los Angeles
Petronell
Berlin
Semmering
Jerusalem
Prague
Gustav Mahler
Walter Gropius
Franz Werfel
The Song of Bernadette
Oskar Kokoschka

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