PREMIERE "Der Drache"

Once upon a time there was a DRAGON who had three heads and a city over which he ruled despotically. He had raised the people there to servitude, worn them down with fear and fed them lies until they felt completely at home in his dictatorship. Everything was fine until... the rather fearless professional heroes LANZELOT showed up to put an end to the reign of terror. Normally there were no problems, usually even applause, when the dragon-slaying crew meddled in other people's affairs without being asked. This time, however, there was resistance among the people to the possible liberation. The tyrant had done a great job! In this battle, it would probably not be enough just to put an end to the dragon... Go Lanzelots!

Written in 1943, Yevgeny Schwarz's poetic and terrifyingly funny fairytale play is a political parable about dictatorship and the subject spirit. It was so sensitive in the year it was written that it was banned for 17 years and is still explosively topical today.