What Should We Do with Grandpa?

What happens when politics enters the family and turns the dearest people against one another? The play “What Should We Do with Grandpa?” is an extreme drama of political alienation: people live under the same roof, yet an unbearable ideological divide rises between them. Shaped by the political climate, especially during protests and elections, this divide ultimately destroys family harmony and leads to a tragic rupture.

The play is inspired by the mass protests of April 7, 2009, in Moldova, considered one of the most traumatic and pivotal episodes in the country’s history. The protests erupted after elections, when thousands of young people took to the streets of Chisinau. The opposition and demonstrators claimed the elections had been rigged. The events quickly escalated into violent confrontation.

The performance explores the complex symptoms that spread through society like moss:
what is the connection between victim and executioner?
what happens when an ideological parasite infiltrates the sacred structure of the family?