True Story Nights (at Volkstheater)

The hugely popular TRUE STORY NIGHTS from Vienna Storytelling Collective returns on October 22nd 2025 to celebrate its 3rd anniversary of monthly sold out shows at the grand Volkstheater Rote Bar. 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 October 22nd 2025 TRUE STORY NIGHTS is Turan Ali, Romana Carén, Alan Burgon and Alicia Edelweiss.
Turan Ali has been producing, directing and writing BBC Radio dramas, comedies and documentaries for 25+ 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 current tour includes Vienna, Scotland, Cyprus, Czech Republic and Istanbul. He won the Creative Edinburgh Leadership Award 2024.
Romana Carén is an award-winning writer, director and actress from Vienna, now a PhD student at De Montfort University, UK. She created acclaimed short films such as No Mother (2021), winner of multiple international awards, and Heartbeat (2013), screened at Cannes & Raindance. She’s also Director of Postgraduate Studies/Film-making at Raindance Film School, with her first book on self-directing due in 2026.
Alan Burgon is an award-winning British actor, director, writer, and a graduate of Scotland’s Royal Conservatoire. He has performed with Dundee Rep, National Theatre of Scotland, on German TV (Tatort Mainz, Das Netz) & international films (Thank You For Bombing, Me We). He co-founded Vienna's Open House Theatre, and is Bjørn in Austria's biggest ABBA tribute band The Magic Of ABBA.
Alicia Edelweiss is an Austro-British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (especially accordion), artist and yarnspinner, with dark folk tales and witty auto-biographical sketches. She won the Hubert von Goisern Cultural Award (2022) and released 2 albums, “When I'm Enlightened, Everything Will Be Better” (2019), “FURIE” (2025). She has performed in festivals across Europe with her chamber pop band of strings.

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLY FROM VOLKSTHEATER. No need to RSVP here, you will need to buy tickets from Volkstheater to attend. https://www.volkstheater.at/produktion/1494643/true-story-nights/2943376