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By staging Schlachten! in Germany – an adaptation of Shakespeare’s War of the Roses- Luk Perceval was looking for the workings of power and dominion and their dubious legitimations.

Four hundred years after Shakespeare the audience gets a similar sort of contemporary and political theatrical production with language as the thread. This was the beginning of the production’s international triumphal march…

SCHLACHTEN! was selected for the Theatretreffen- festival in Berlin 2000. On the Theatretreffen Luk Perceval and Tom Lanoye receive the Innovationspreis. SCHLACHTEN! is voted by 39 German theatre reviewers the BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR 2000, a prize rewarded annually by Theatre Heute. Thomas Thieme was elected as “Schauspieler des Jahres 2000” for his part as Dirty Rich Modderfokker.