Brecht, censorship, democracy, and exile today.
In 1947, Bertolt Brecht was interrogated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee. A list of the absurd questions Brecht had to answer forms the starting point for the performance. Exile, trials for subversion, the humanist haven of an untraceable elsewhere, the finding that a supposedly democratic country can also practise censorship; these are some of the themes running through Four Walls and a Roof.
Based on their own voluntary emigration from Beirut to Berlin, the artistic duo – Theaterpreis Berlin 2026 – use a playful approach to examine the misfortunes of a great idealist and articulate political reflections on the present, making us question how free and open our reality is.
