A modular travelling theatre for a darkly funny and provocative performance about desire, politics and the impossibility of peace.

The production follows Polina, a Russian poet living in Dublin 8, and an international ensemble of performers as they move through romantic, political, physical, hidden and desperate desires. Set against the desire plots of Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk, the work asks what it means to want change, to want pleasure, to want escape, and to discover the limits of wanting itself.

The design was conceived as a portable spatial system: compact enough to travel, flexible enough to hold different modes of address, and direct enough to transform ordinary rooms into temporary sites of performance and public encounter.

Rather than constructing a fixed fictional world, the set operated as a framework for gathering — a lightweight architecture of thresholds, surfaces and supports, shaped around bodies, speech, proximity and exchange.