Caligula

The more than 2,000 years that have passed since the death of Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula, cannot erase his image as a cruel, extraordinary and tyrannical Roman ruler. It can be boldly stated that he is one of the most controversial historical figures with an extraordinary and eccentric dictatorship. "Fatigue from ideologies breeds tyranny, and the need of tyranny for ideology destroys it," says Diana Dobрева, the director of this impressive production. As long as there is no ideology beyond the exercise of pure power, which is synonymous with pure violence, tyranny is invisible, acceptable and invulnerable. In Camus's play, Caligula is an alien to pedantic logic, a Sisyphus of absolute power. And if the emperor is a director with uncontrolled will, then death is the premiere to which everyone is obliged to attend. And the more the dictator's urge for death intensifies, the more his regime of rule becomes a norm, a favorite canon, the only dogma for the subjects. The current historical moment makes Camus's understanding particularly valid that human life is a tragic attempt to struggle against absolute emptiness. Death solves nothing and life continues in an unbroken silence and emptiness. ASKEER 2018 for Costume Design by Nina Pashova