Culture
The Carinthian cultural summer is already casting its first shadows. On Thursday, the Ensemble Porcia presented its program for this year’s summer season. The motto of 2026 is: “How real is reality?”
2025 was the busiest year the Ensemble Porcia has experienced since 1961. It was a brilliant first year for the new director Florian Eisner. And this year it’s about “reality”. What is real, what is fake, what is fact, what is fake, these questions now dominate our everyday lives, says director Florian Eisner: “We are of course concerned about whether the theater is not exactly the place where you can at least assume 100 percent that it is live and therefore really happening, the events that we perceive, whereas in the meantime we really have to question everything in our perception of reality.”
Ensemble Porcia presented the program
The Carinthian cultural summer is already casting its first shadows. Today the Ensemble Porcia presented its program for this year’s summer season. The motto of 2016 is. “How real is reality?”
“Der Gefoppte” by Georges Feydeau
On July 3rd, the games will open at Porcia Castle with Georges Feydeau’s Fooled. This is followed by the contemporary comedies “Half Board with a Corpse”, “Honey in the Head” and the winning play of the Austrian Comedy Prize “Doppelt moppelt”. There is also the children’s production “The Bremen Town Musicians”.
The performances in Spittal will be flanked by the theater car, which will show “Brandner Kaspar” and “Eternal Life” under the direction of Angelica Ladurner.
President Samonigg-Mahrer: We know what’s fun
More than 30,000 visitors were recently counted. Andrea Samonigg-Mahrer, President of the “Ensemble Porcia”, on the recipe for success: “We know what we stand for. We know what we can offer. We know what our visitors also like and what they enjoy. And that is actually our goal, to entertain our audience in the best possible way.” The games are played in Spittal in July and August.
