One night in April 2012 outside a gay club in Liège, Belgium, Ihsane Jarfi gets into a car with a group of young men. He is beaten half to death over a period of hours and left naked to die on the edge of a forest; it is not until two weeks later that a walker discovers his body. The brutal crime sets the whole town in an uproar. The multi-award-winning Swiss director Milo Rau reconstructs the case and the social environment of perpetrator and victim in an impressively multi-layered evening of theatre with four actors, a dog-sitter and a warehouse worker from Liège. He focuses on the city itself, including the decline of its metal industry, just as he questions - at the start of the series "History(s) of the Theatre" initiated by him - the representability of violence on stage and our ambivalent relationship to it as spectators.
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