“Attention, here comes the new king…!” The champion, the pioneer, the leader, the winner, the father, the redeemer, the god. The newly elected king goes by many names, but nobody ever mentions his real one. Elfriede Jelinek’s new work is inspired by Donald J. Trump, but this is not a play about him.

Following From the Lives of the Marionettes, Nanouk Leopold is now directing the ITA ensemble in The Homecoming, one of the most frequently performed plays by English playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter. It is still the reference piece for the power game that colours human interaction.

After a long stay in America, Teddy returns to the family home, which is exclusively occupied by men. His father, brothers and uncle have lived there for many years. It's a kingdom of men. To their surprise, he's not alone. He's accompanied by Ruth, to whom he is married. As a result, all of the relationships are on edge.

Pamina is a totally normal girl living on planet Earth. Every night when she’s lying in bed she hears her parents arguing. They think she can’t hear, but she understands every word. Eventually, she manages to fall asleep, and in her stardust dreams she meets Tamino, a totally normal astronaut from the future. Despite the light-years between them, they’ve got lots in common. 

But there are dark powers at work in her dream – Sun and Night are fighting an intergalactic battle over light and dark. Who is Sun? Who is Night? And how are they connected to Pamina? Will she prevail against these cosmic forces who always put their own interests first?

The world is hard, you can’t snuggle up against it.

There’s a girl in a police cell, and she’s angry. She’s 16, and she’s smart. She’s smarter than her parents, and smarter than most other people, too. She thinks about things, and the world, and life, and stuff like that. She’s going to say it like it is, because she’s scared her future’s about to explode.