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Last Generation climate activists now taken to disrupting medieval mystery plays.



Last Generation disrupted Jedermann (Everyman) premiere in Salzburg

Activists scattered around the auditorium spoke out at the premiere of the traditional play before being escorted out of the auditorium

The play 'Jedermann' by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on medieval sources, premiered on Saturday as part of the Salzburg Festival.

Salzburg - In this year's production of the traditional play Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival, director Michael Sturminger focuses on apocalyptic gloom in a world disintegrated by climate change and capitalism. Therefore, it was not entirely clear at first whether the disruptive action at the beginning of the festival, which the Last Generation claimed responsibility for on Twitter after the premiere on Friday evening, was not perhaps part of the production, which was moved from Domplatz to the Festspielhaus due to the weather.

After all, the two-hour evening had already begun with a - staged - disruptive action in which activists wearing high-visibility waistcoats stormed onto the stage and sprayed the façade of Jedermann's Villa with orange paint. About halfway through the play, activists scattered around the hall then spoke up with shouts of "We are all the Last Generation!" before being escorted out of the hall and the action on stage continued seamlessly.

What remains of a human life?

In a statement, the climate activists emphasised that "everyone" has a responsibility. According to their own statements, they were dragged out of the Salzburg Festspielhaus "with a large contingent of security staff" because they had asked the question that also preoccupied the writer Hugo von Hofmannstahl more than 100 years ago: "What remains of a human life?" Among other things, the climate group demands that the solutions presented by the Climate Council in June last year be implemented.

The Salzburg Festival will be officially opened on 27 July with a ceremony at the Felsenreitschule. The keynote address will be given by quantum physicist and Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger. The Hamlet quote "Time is out of joint" is the motto of this year's programme. Until 31 August there will be 179 performances on 43 days in 15 venues as well as 34 performances in the youth programme "jung & jede*r". Highlights include Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" and the two Verdi operas "Macbeth" and "Falstaff" as well as Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" and a stage version of Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning film "Amour".

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