Those Dishes

1905, Moscow: Grand Duke Sergei is on his way to the Bolshoi Theater in his carriage. Five revolutionaries want to seize the opportunity to carry out an attack on the despot. But the attempt fails: the assassin Kalyayev hesitates when he sees that there are children in the carriage and decides to spare them. Back at their hideout, heated discussions break out among the anarchists about the fight against a repressive system and the path to a just world. What should be done when the price of freedom affects innocent people? How far can individuals go to ensure the well-being of society? And can there ever be such a thing as "just" violence? The struggle for a just life and the boundaries between individual action and idealistic aspirations unfold, revealing a relevant analogy to current events.

French writer, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner for literature Albert Camus was inspired to write this drama by the historical assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Romanov, who was murdered by a group of social revolutionaries in 1905. Premiered in 1949, the drama addresses the contradictions between political convictions and the personal doubts that arise when violence is used. Following her successful production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the young, up-and-coming director Anne Mulleners now stages this human search for justice at the Kammerspiele.