A Little Light. And All This Silence.

Warfare, conscription, rearmament: words that had been forgotten but are now omnipresent once again. At first, the queer engineer in Sibylle Berg's play welcomes this change in mood – after all, they work in the arms industry and benefit from the growing demand for weapons. However, when conflict breaks out between Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, which soon escalates militarily, as the fighting becomes increasingly bloody and they is suddenly drafted to serve on the front line, they begin to doubt their attitude and desert. Barricaded in a cellar, without light and with limited water supplies, they tries to explain to the child they never had a world that is consistently heading for its demise. What has become of the virtues of faith, love and hope, of concepts such as democracy, freedom and solidarity in a completely capitalised system dominated by a few tech billionaires who have apparently even sold heaven to Google?

Sarcastic yet deadly serious, unsentimental yet full of tenderness and melancholy, Sibylle Berg asks the fundamental question about the meaning of our actions and at what point in history we as a society may have taken a wrong turn.