DON QUIXOTE 2027
OWN WORK
A theatrical retelling of the wandering knight who mistakes windmills for giants — starting from Kathy Acker's punk adaptation Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986), in which the Spanish nobleman becomes an American dreamer searching for love in a loveless society.
A ROOM OF HIS OWN 2026
DE DUIVELS/LES DIABLES 2023
A Room Of His Own is a perverse comedy of manners about pornography, power and sexual politics. At its centre stands Andrea Dworkin, the notorious anti-porn feminist of the 1970s. During a sleepless night, Dworkin takes the audience on a dark journey through the postwar promise of sexual liberation — her decadent visions, her contradictions, and her enduring grip on society.
UP YOUR ASS 2023
COPYRIOT is about the search for solid ground in a world that increasingly looks like a copy of a copy. Inspired by Charlie Kaufman’s films and by Dostoevsky’s absurdist short story The Double, Krapp wants to evoke a tragicomical mirror world full of strange duplications and dubious doppelgängers.
Valerie Solanas' notorious 1965 comedy, staged for the first time on a European stage in 2023. New York, the sixties: con artist and sex worker Bongi Perez clashes with a daddy's girl and a male narcissist in a succession of vulgar, (anti-)intellectual disputes — crude, absurd and grotesque.
At the start of the 17th century, the French provincial town of Loudun is shaken by a wave of hysteria: local nun Jeanne des Anges is accused of demonic possession. Local authorities fear a demon, with obscene motives, is making the monastery unsafe at night. Soon they catch sight of the progressive and sexually promiscuous priest Urbain Grandier. This accusation marks the start of one of the most infamous witch trials in history. Loudun becomes the scene of a grand political theatre; both the nuns and Grandier become actors in a legal spectacle that addresses brand-new societal issues. Is the nuns’ possession truly a supernatural intervention by evil powers, or is it a collective denunciation of their centuries-long (sexual) oppression? And is Grandier guilty, or is he merely a scapegoat in a fast-evolving world?
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