The Glorious French Revolution (or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done)
August 1792. Twenty-thousand people storm the palace of King Louis XVI. Six months later he is guillotined: France is a Republic.
July 1794. Fifteen thousand more people have had their heads chopped off. Republican leader Robespierre gets guillotined as well. The Revolution is over.
January 2024. Members of the international elite assembled in Davos for the final meetings of the World Economic Forum where they enjoyed saunas, spas and high-class food. Child poverty levels are the highest they’ve ever been. The richest 1% own half of the world’s wealth. A politician was hit by a flying egg.
Drawing on a fiery tradition of Brechtian political theatre, five actors blast through one of the most vital, controversial moments in European history in a completely one-sided, biased, irreverent account of what it feels like to crave a guillotine today.
