True Story Nights (at Volkstheater) NOW SOLD OUT

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The hugely popular TRUE STORY NIGHTS from Vienna Storytelling Collective begins its 4th year in May 2025, at Volkstheater’s Rote Bar, and has been sold out every month. These exciting storytelling evenings have been bringing you a different line up of performers each time, with surprising, moving, hilarious and sometimes shockingly true stories. Your host as ever is Turan Ali, producer of BBC drama/comedy, who welcomes you to a rollercoaster evening of gripping, high quality true stories – some from Vienna. Our ever-changing quartet of storytellers for each show includes novelists, comedians, radio, TV and film professionals, screenplay writers, performance poets, singer-songwriters and theatre-makers. It feels like being the priest at a confessional, hearing such personal revelations …. but you don’t need to keep all these a secret!
WHAT THE AUDIENCES HAVE SAID : “Exhilarating”, “A brilliant evening every time”, “Funny and very moving”, “Incredible stories !”
True stories guaranteed to astonish, amuse or amaze you with their honesty.
The line up for our May 13th 2025 TRUE STORY NIGHTS is Turan Ali, Florian Sebastian Fitz, Amelie Tobien and David Zellnik.
Turan Ali has been producing, directing and writing BBC Radio dramas, comedies and documentaries for 20+ years. He’s the creator, host and producer of True Story Nights. He has Austrian/Turkish parents, has been an on-stage storyteller since 2012 and a stand-up since 2021. His recent tours have included Vienna, Scotland, Budapest and Istanbul. He won the Creative Edinburgh Leadership Award 2024.
Florian Sebastian Fitz is an actor/musical performer from the Waldviertel, who trained in Vienna. His many theatre, musical, TV and film credits include The Woman from the Sea (Armen Theater Wien), Three Men in the Snow (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz), as Patrick Jaric in the ORF series Walking on Sunshine and the TV series SOKO Donau. His band with his brother is called the Fitz Brothers.
Amelie Tobien is a singer-songwriter who grew up with American folk music, but she honed her storytelling skills and found her voice in Dublin, Ireland. She returned home to Vienna where she has found her inner circle of exceptional songwriters and friends to write, record, and tour with. Her album Monument was released both on vinyl and digitally in 2023 and her latest release is Till the Morning Light.
David Zellnik is a New York based playwright and musical theatre writer, back in Vienna for his 2nd visit, the city his father left aged 8 in 1939. His musical Yank! has been performed with sold out runs in London, Rio de Janeiro, and Brisbane. His young adult podcast musical Loveville is on all streaming apps. He’s performed his solo show O Time widely, including in New York in the United Solo Festival
TICKETS only from Volkstheater (box office or online): https://www.volkstheater.at/produktion/1494643/true-story-nights-1/1494731/