[This is probably just interesting for my Austrian readers.]

Guido Tartarotti is an Austrian columnist and critic. He now has a theatre programme that is part reading from his columns, part stand-up comedy. The title of the programme roughly translates to: About Life/Survival – Escape from Guinea Pig Cage.

To understand what the programme is about, I need to explain the title. Tartarotti writes about life (so far, so good). In a news paper. Writing in a news paper always means that you’re going to be hot shit one day and the next day you’re going to be the underlay in a guinea pig cage. Now this theatre programme is Tartarotti’s try to escape from the cage and maybe into the limelight.

Anyway, there were some really nice parts to the programme and while I was not rolling on the floor, choking on my own tears of laughter, I had a pretty good time.

There was some great stuff about Austrians/Germans speaking English (like the one guy who was pulled onstage at a Bryan Adams [or was it Bon Jovi?] concert and managed to say to his idol: “you are the best singer that I can.” And no, the guy wasn’t Scottish, kennen in German just means know… ) And he pointed the audience to this video, which you English speaking guys might find funny, too:

[Well, I’m not entirely sure that it was this exact video he meant, but one like it at least.]

So, since his career out of the guinea pig cage is relatively young, you might want to see whether you can get tickets for his current tour. Because I think he’s going to get bigger and right now the tickets are pretty cheap. And cheap theatre is always a good thing.