Our pope is written in February 2007 by Arnon Grunberg for the Wrocławski Teatr Współczesny in Poland, where it has never been staged. Wunderbaum finds the text very interesting, bought the exclusive rights and thus brings the world premiere of this text.

Our pope is about Guillaume van Rompuy, a Flemish university teacher in Dutch. He can’t find a job in Flanders and moves, as recommended by his mum, to Poland (“Life is supposedly still very cheap over there”) to work at the university of Wrocław. His girlfriend is coming with him.

It turns out to be a total catastrophe. Van Rompuy and his girlfriend end up in a society that wants to exploit the merits of capitalism, but at the same time shows a longing for the communism, a deep rooted nationalism, bureaucracy and perverted exercise of power. Van Rompuy is in this environment a modern Sisyphus, who suffers his fate and travels a painful way to something indeterminate.