Performance / Theatre / Dance / Vocals / Experimental music / Battle Rap by Myassa Kraitt

While patriarchy and machismo have existed and expanded long before women’s liberation, the Eurocentric chronicle of feminism does not begin before the 18th century. Where are the stories of those who rebelled earlier than that; those who were excluded from the first women’s lib movement? In The Last Feminist, dystopian spoilsports, strangers and rapping killjoys write their own genesis to account for the history of feminism that haunts the present. The performers shed light on the interior conflicts of feminist movements in a dystopian fashion while searching for open doors of collective liberation.

Looking for the first feminists, the story begins in an unknown, dystopian city. The last feminist who hasn’t lost her ideological convictions tries to find her vanished fellows. In a time when the idea of the world and the planet ending is real and the new strength of anti-feminism lends modern patriarchy new glamour, a bunch of hard-core princesses, queer crypto-feminists, emotional bitches and post-dramatic witches ride from wave to wave and read feminism against the fucking grain, shouting out to those voices within the feminist struggle that are otherwise absent. The Last Feminist creates a battle-rap score allowing for a poetic bond among many. Examining themes like radical kinship and a loss of unity allows glimpses into the life of staunch feminists. Who were the first? Who owns feminism today? In an episode structure and four chapters, the performers and musicians look for the revolutionary potential of resistance in the failure of their own movement. They redefine and renegotiate feminism from the perspective of queer-feminist underdogs, realising that those who are missing will give us the clues to where patriarchy takes hold and rules, so we will finally understand feminist history.

Director, concept, idea and lyrics Myassa Kraitt Musical direction and composition Gloria Amesbauer Music production and rap music Oliver Cortez Performers Denise Palmieri, Luis Javier Murillo, Iris Omari Ansong, Myassa Kraitt Musicians Gloria Amesbauer, José Luis Borja Castellano, Luí Matias dos Santos, Kem Kolleritsch, Ilay Schwingshandl, Yasko Koch Inside Eye Dramaturgy Ivana Pilić Costume Heike Bülk Lighting Design Mirza Kebo Stage Design Concept Vi Pham Tùng Production Mika Maruyama Production, Technical Assistance and Rap Coaching Sufian Kraitt Outside Eye Steffo Sourial, Veza Fernández Camera and technical equipment for the stage Hubert Marz Video and visual operation Rawan Almukhtar Animation and logo Xingrui Translation Ivana Pilić, Götz Leineweber, Dilan Şengül Video direction Dilan Şengül Video editing Rawan Almukhtar, Kem Kolleritsch Camera operation Roland Pfisterer Camera operation Assistance Mehrdad Derafshi Video production Assistance on site Markus Hug, Zeynep Alan, Miwa Negoro

A co-production by Rewaq – Verein zur Förderung feministischer und diskriminierungskritischer Kunst und Kultur and brut Wien

With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

Thanks to Studio Mänada, Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreich (VBKÖ)