Documentary theater with music, to reflect on the freedom to say what you think.

Bertolt Brecht had to flee Germany in 1933. He was persecuted for his political views. After traveling through several countries, he finally reached the USA in 1941. In October 1947, he and 18 other film authors were summoned to appear before the Committee of Inquiry into Un-American Activities. Brecht was suspected of being a member of the Communist Party, and Communists were generally regarded as allies of the Soviet Union in the USA at the time. And that, in turn, was the declared enemy in the budding Cold War. Brecht had prepared a speech for the interrogation, but he was not allowed to deliver it. He later made it public at a press conference. The Lebanese artist duo Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué take up the legendary interrogation. In their critical and humorous interrogation, they interweave the historical documents with fantasies and creative digressions. Both share Brecht's experience of exile and resolutely reject any form of preconceived opinion.

A co-production by Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie with Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Festival D'Automne Paris, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Performing Exiles/Berliner Festspiele, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt a. M., Kampnagel Hamburg