The Ridiculous Darkness / Det Löjliga Mörkret / 2016

Immensely complex, sharp and deeply humanistic, Wolfram Lotz’s play operates as a critical commentary on our times. It’s a story of prejudice and xenophobia in which reality and imagination float together in a jumble of global misconceptions and collective delusions.

What I recognized in Lotz’s craftiness is a perfectly contemporary Rabelaisian approach to the characters. In situations given, it is densely inwrought with the best heritage of the theater of the absurd. The same level of outrageous, crude and stubbornly non-hypocritical language performed by costumes is what I tried to achieve.