When the Roman emperor’s mistress-and-sister dies his life is drained of all meaning.

In his wild orgy of self-destruction, Caligula flays at society’s prevailing order and desperately challenges everyone to sacrifice their lives to the battle against the futilities of the world.

Philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, who wrote Caligula in 1944, said of his protagonist: “He rejects friendship and love, simple human solidarity, good and evil. He takes the word of those around him, he forces them to logic, and he levels all around him by force of his refusal and by the rage of destruction which drives his passion for life.”

The play is a savage race towards ruin in which eight young actors dig deep in a radical unmasking of our fundamental values and morals.

Caligula is a partnership between the Royal Danish Theatre and the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. The production presents students from the school’s graduate team.