‘I want to become someone like someone else once was.’

A person on stage – he only knows one sentence. This sentence and the associated desire to become someone else forms the centre of his being.

‘I want to become someone like someone else once was.’

Kaspar is an actor who has left his homeland and whose tools of the trade, language, have become useless in his new home. Kaspar faces a world whose stage language limits him in his expression and whose production structures prove to be hostile.

‘I want to become someone like someone else once was.’

Language is the medium of self-assurance and its mastery is the criterion for judgement by others.

The play is partly autobiographical. Nikos Konstantakis tells of the personal hell he experienced when he played his first role in German after eight years in Germany.
What began as torture turned out to be liberation. Set pieces from his personal experiences, as well as overlays of interviews with migrant actors who describe their experiences on German stages, form the framework.