IDIOTERNE

Original titleIDIOTERNE
CategoryPlay
AgegroupAdults
Cast8 total (4 F and 4 M)
Variable cast sizeNo
RepresentationWorldwide representation
LanguagesDanish, English, French, German

Via interviews the play’s persons reveal their views on each other and their non-idiot players. The play begins with Karen’s encounter with the idiot-people in a restaurant. She accompanies the idiots back to their residence. It turns out that the residents of the house are all more or less idiots but they are not greater idiots than Karen is herself. As time passes, the residents test each other to see if each person can, and dare live as idiot among non-idiots. When the leader of the idiots, Stoffer decides that they now have to find out if they are living on a lie or if they really dare live out the feelings, the house quickly falls apart. Karen goes home to her family with one of the other residents but quickly realises that her time with family is over. First opening as stage play was at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in 2004.