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1. 1. La Caduta

   

   A former successful Parisian lawyer delivers a long, confessional monologue to a silent listener in Amsterdam, recounting how a series of humiliations and complacencies led him to abandon his pretensions to virtue and embrace a role of self-appointed judge and penitent; through ironic detachment, sharp observation and repeated self-accusation he unmasks his own hypocrisy and explores themes of guilt, responsibility, freedom and the human tendency to condemn others to avoid confronting one’s own moral failures.

2. 2. Caligula And Three Other Plays

   

   A four-play collection that probes power, revolt, and the human condition through stark, existential drama: from a ruler driven to cruelty by the absurdity of life to ordinary people crushed by moral paralysis, from conspirators wrestling with the ethics of violence to a community trapped under siege, each piece examines the cost of freedom, the corrosive effects of absolute authority, and the tragic ambiguity of moral choice in an indifferent world.

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3. 3. Caligula / Das Mißverständnis / Die Gerechten

   

   A tightly connected triptych of dramas examines the limits of freedom, the search for meaning, and the moral cost of self-righteous action. In the first piece a Roman ruler, consumed by grief and a desire for absolute liberty, abandons moral restraint and practices arbitrary cruelty until his excesses provoke a fatal conspiracy. The second portrays a grim domestic tragedy in which a returning stranger is not recognized by his impoverished mother and sister, who, blinded by pragmatism and fear, kill him for profit—revealing the void left by the absence of recognition and human connection. The third follows committed revolutionaries who carry out a political assassination in the name of justice and must then confront the ethical burden and personal fallout of violence purportedly done for the greater good. Together the plays probe revolt, absurdity, responsibility, and the uneasy boundary between justice and murder, forcing characters and spectators alike to question whether any absolute ideal can justify destroying what makes us human.