All the Commotion - the first play kicking of our 2025 playwriting festival theme, The Price of Passion.

Synopsis:  

In an unspecified country, 40 years after the fall of a dictatorial regime. Democracy, albeit fragile, is in place, but its social psyche is still encumbered by the memories of the terrorism that ravaged the land after the civil war that put an end to the regime. Now that the weapons have been abandoned, the cultural war has begun; those who still hold the old regime in high regard are trying to reimplement their ways and slowly creep back into power. With this goal in mind, the revisionists have decided to install themselves into the academic scene.

Meanwhile, Oliver, has been trying to start a PhD in cinema for years. After many failed attempts at admissions and the looming feeling of his increasing age, he turns to a revisionist leaning university…