In this play written in 2016 during the victory of U.S. President Donald Trump, it is not the COVID-19 that causes damage and changes the world, but a completely different crisis: the suffering of a blinded people with the immediate effect: social disruption, anarchy. The king is blinded by himself, the people are blinded by the desire to be saved from the king, the enemies are blinded by their own defeat: they don't need a guide, but they have been given one. 

Between tragedy and grotesque, between sophistication of language, puns and vulgarity, Elfriede Jelinek invents insane and out of the ordinary images to denounce the excesses of personal power and the disturbing return of History in its most blind violence. Her text flows out of the 15 actors' bodies, their multiple and choral voices forming a nightmarish agora, an electric, vibrant, anarchic space with interruptions of songs, silences and aesthetic images.

The students were welcomed in residence for two weeks at the CDN Le Manège in Maubeuge, where the premiere took place on May 27. The show then toured in Switzerland and France.