THE LONG SHORT HISTORY OF PEACE

Who is paying the price for peace in Europe? In May of 2025, state and government leaders of the European Union celebrated 80 years of peace – and did so while wars supported by European weapons exports were being waged on the margins of Europe. In the agitprop music-theatre performance THE LONG SHORT HISTORY OF PEACE, the collective teatru-spălătorie tells the story of these years of peace and the story of the people who have to pay the price for it. In a three-storey cell block, they will unleash the hammering sounds of ruthless interest-driven politics, while firing fast, sharp texts at the walls of the prison and the brutal reality of capitalism. What remains of the ideal of European peace – has it been 80 years of peace or 80 years of brutal capitalism?

teatru-spălătorie is a queer feminist theatre collective, which was founded in 2010 in Moldova. Their plays grapple with power relations between Eastern and Western Europe, with the patriarchy and the neoliberal capitalist system. Their works move between agitprop theatre, a concert and performance art, and draw on a unique musical practice and aesthetic that combines spoken word with influences from punk, industrial and electronica. They were guests at Festival Theaterformen in 2022 with Sinfonie des Fortschritts.