Jonathan Spector's tragic comedy, which was created in 2018, takes all the irreconcilability of recent years to the extreme and makes the pressing questions behind it visible: What do we mean by democracy? How do we want to make decisions? What opportunities for involvement and participation should there be? Are the interests of the community limited by individual freedom? Or rather vice versa?
In his drama ORPHEUS RISES DOWN, Williams shows the destructive mechanisms of a society characterized by xenophobia in a place in the southern states of the USA in the 1950s - and in doing so tells a story that continues to play out in a similar form everywhere repeated at all times.