Thomas Levin takes to the stage alone in Surkov, a newly written satire built around Vladislav Surkov, the director, advertising man and former spin doctor for Putin. The piece follows a fast-moving route from Moscow's creative underground to the machinery of the Kremlin, and from the fall of the Berlin Wall to a present marked by chaos, conflict and disinformation.
The production asks what happens when politics becomes theatre and reality turns into a script, and it looks at how Surkov's methods have become a model for populist leaders around the world. Here people turn into roles, opinions into lines and weapons into props, until the line between fiction and fact disappears altogether.
Directed by Jesper Pedersen, with dramaturgy by Signe Marie Saerens Taasti Klastrup and video design by Troelz Schmidt.
