Blue

»Blue« is an object theatre piece by the Greek puppet duo Hop Signor, using little spoken English. The duo takes the colour blue, the uniform and familiar jokes about men in uniform as a starting point for a theatrical reflection on police violence, power structures, fear and vulnerability. The award-winning production unfolds through precisely played, intense scenes about confessions, threats, silence and brittle tenderness. Its miniature world works like a distorting mirror – ironic, exaggerated and at the same time painfully truthful – and closes the festival Theater der Dinge with a powerful portrait of a society and its control systems built on authority and hierarchy.