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"The night before I entered the occupied territories, I saw a speech on TV by the government and military leaders.

The island of Illyria seems at first to be a life raft after a dramatic shipwreck, but soon becomes the setting for deceptions about identity and the romantic entanglements that follow: having survived and been stranded, Viola believes that her be

Imagine that your past fits in a suitcase. Or on a sheet of paper. Or in a theatre show. Imagine you had to tell someone where you come from, who you are – and you knew: there are many different versions of the truth.

"Many things are monstrous. Yet nothing is more monstrous than man."

In his play "Kinder der Sonne" ("Children of the Sun") from 1905, Maxim Gorki describes a group of Russian intellectuals who have become alienated from the people and from real life.

Who am I when no one is watching? And who can I be when everyone sees me? Dorian Gray is young, handsome and desirable. His looks open doors for him, earn him recognition, protect him.

In the world of the three sisters, time trickles by with them divorced from reality and longing for a romanticised past. They dream of their childhood when their father, the General, was still alive and Europe still seemed to be in order.

It's March 1920 and the young Weimar Republic is facing one of its biggest challenges. After the end of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles entering into force, parts of the military refuse to disband.