It is interesting to read the audience comments about our piece, and it has been fascinating to guage the different ways that audiences respond during the performance, from city to city and country to country. Our American performances so far (and Ann Arbor was the third) seem to have elicited far more ‘real’ laughter (as opposed to the ‘uncomfortable’ kind) than in Europe. I’m not sure why. Certainly there are moments in the piece that are downright disturbing; these moments usually silence any outright laughter, because they reveal with a shock that the man addressing them has duped them with his charm and humour, in the same way that Jack Unterweger did with his public.

A note about the surtitles: as a native English speaker, I am truly embarassed, and we can only apologise. By accident an old file, with that atrocious translation, was used. I myself had gone through the translation to eradicate any non-sensical English ‘approximations’, and do not know how the person from the venue who operated the surtitles ended up using an old file. At least this was some potential fodder for Jack’s rant about the ‘quality of our so-called ‘organisation”.
-Dean Kustra, Geschäftsführer, Musikkonzept