DIGITHALIA - Festival for virtual Theatre Forms Graz

»The digital realm is full of communities; virtual networks offer places for everyone wanting to exchange ideas. They provide hope. Yet, at the same time, they radicalize just as much as they bring people together. DIGITHALIA explores the role of communities and synthetic families. The time has come to come together.«

The festival full of theater and digitality is back for its third edition! In March 2026, “DIGITHALIA – Festival for Virtual Theater Forms Graz” will once again be dedicated to exploring innovative forms of storytelling.For four days, “DIGITHALIA” transforms the Schauspielhaus Graz into a stage for theater formats that venture into the unreality of the virtual world and raise questions about community, power, and resistance. The third edition features texts, performances, and multimedia works that explore possibilities for coexistence: Who is behind the avatars and agents? Who prefers to remain anonymous, and who is looking for a new community? As bots manipulate communication networks and platforms open up to dubious truths, new skills are needed: tools and an understanding of how we want to talk to each other and how we can negotiate trust, information, and knowledge with each other. “DIGITHALIA” presents regional and international productions as well as shows by the Schauspielhaus Graz. With performances, games, films, installations and concerts, the SCHAUSPIELHAUS becomes a gathering place for anyone keen to find out how the theater can address the Digital and how the Digital will respond.