“I want to become someone who once was someone else.”

A person stands on stage – capable of speaking only a single sentence.

This sentence, and the longing to become someone else, forms the core of their existence.

“I want to become someone who once was someone else.”

Kaspar is an actor who has left his homeland. The very tool of his craft – language – has become useless in his new home.

Kaspar faces a world whose stage language limits his expression, and whose production structures turn out to be hostile.

“I want to become someone who once was someone else.”

Language is the medium through which we affirm our identity – and mastery of it becomes the measure by which others judge us.

This piece is partly autobiographical. Nikos Konstantakis shares his personal hell – the experience of playing his first role in German after eight years in the country.

What began as torture turned into liberation. Fragments of his personal story and excerpts from interviews with other migrant actors about their experiences on German stages frame the performance.