In an unnamed totalitarian state, a secret theatre production is being staged under the guise of a wedding. Gradually, fact and fiction begin to blur, it becomes unclear who or what to trust, and not a single person is safe – not even the wedding guests.

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As the play begins...Adem is a mechanic who has written a play, and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the Ministry of Culture by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has true potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way, instead of telling uncomfortable truths.

 

Together with his new assistant Mei and national playwriting treasure Bax, Čelik takes his new protogé through a crash-course in how to write a celebrated play for the national stage.

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Theatre, politics, war, egotism, censorship, and bureaucracy are all neatly skewered in this playfully provocative, darkly comic play. But, not everything is quite what it seems; and we, the audience, aren’t either. In fact, in this gem of contemporary playwriting, nothing is quite what you think it might be.