At the centre of the play is a theatre director, Jonas P. Lang, who is at odds with his troupe and with the sudden fame he finds after being awarded an important prize. Exceptional people ought to be shot, not awarded theatre prizes, the character says.
The director, played "laconically" by Tilo Werner, is a brother in spirit to the great German film director Fritz Lang, or he could be an alter ego for Mundruczó, who, at the age of 34, is a well known filmmaker and was awarded the critics prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film Delta, Frauke Hartmann wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau.
The set consists of a poorly furnished living room, a bath and a kitchen into which the audience is brought with the help of cameras and monitors. It is a "parody of the legacy of Socialism that is so compelling one can almost smell the must."
Lang lives with his Hungarian mother, a former film star who has mutated into a slut, and his stepfather, who is murdered in the course of the piece. The pace picks up and the events become more unmanageable until the piece touches on The Gospel of Judas, in which Jesus is said to have wanted Judas to betray him. "Until a betrayal out of love is made here too, Mundruczó offers us a deep and intimate look into the loss of his characters, who with almost shameful directness extend their personal disaster," Hartmann said. "With a directness unlike in film Mundruczó has crossed a new border."
