In the European Parliament, Everybody for Berlusconi prompts questions from Italy to the Netherlands: why pay for a performance that calls for the assassination of Berlusconi?

The performance is about corruption in Italy and the question: why are we talking about Turkey joining the European Union and not about Italy leaving?

Everywhere in Europe, including Slovenia, the home country of co-producer Betontanc and the Netherlands, we see a political swing to the right. Silvio Berlusconi is the most talked-about European politician of the moment. His personality says something about the development of democracy in Europe, in the new Europe, of which both Betontanc and Jonghollandia/ Wunderbaum are a part. The Europe of commercialisation and populism, but also the Europe of the search for utopian unity.

The actors search for a personal way of dealing with this larger structure. Who are we in this larger Europe and how do leaders like Silvio Berlusconi influence our personal lives?

A performance about power and manipulation in the form of a congress, where they discuss Silvio Berlusconi.

“In this world I see only dwarfs. Lots of dwarfs. I don’t see any giants. Except myself.” Silvio Berlusconi