In the organizer's words:

Peter, a grown man, leaves the family home late at night. Not without hesitation, but magnetically attracted to the city where a man awaits him. But the sex date turns out to be a trap: this wolf tracks down queer people with perfidious skill in order to hand them over to the homophobic government. Instead of being back at dawn as planned to celebrate their son's 8th birthday with his wife, Peter ends up in prison - where he meets his childhood sweetheart, the musician Ilya, again. Only many years later will Peter see his now 16-year-old son again - and a final betrayal will follow ...

In Pidor and the Wolf , the story of Prokofiev's famous musical fairy tale forms the backdrop for telling the painfully topical story of the persecution of queer people in Chechnya since 2017 as a gloomy, hopeless and yet poetic fairy tale. From the perspective of the eight-year-old son, a violent system of power unfolds that perfidiously punishes any deviation and from which there seems to be no escape.

In her world premiere production of Pidor and the Wolf , director Jessica Weisskirchen, known to Dortmund audiences for her visually powerful and intense productions of Woyzeck and Queens , depicts a dehumanized society in which no one is spared the damage of psychological and physical violence and yet moments of emotional connection and dark beauty allow the utopia of another world to emerge. She has directed at the Volkstheater Munich, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the Staatstheater Hannover and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, among others.