Lonely cry for freedom | News.at

Alfred: What have we made of our nature? A straitjacket. Nobody is allowed to do what they want. Marianne: And no one wants what they can. The cry for freedom and a self-determined life is one of the central motifs of Ödön von Horvath’s folk play “Tales from the Vienna Woods”, which premiered on Saturday in the Linz State Theater. But Marianne buys this freedom hard: She falls in love on the day of her engagement to the butcher Oskar