The performance “Caligula” is a romantic tragifarce the participants whereof are forceless before their sovereign, and a human is ad absurdum miserable in his nothingness and servile obedience. Deaf stone walls… Sarcophagus-aquarium on the stage. This is where Caligula (V. Epifantsev) will come from, resembling a fantastic predatory fish. His servants are an innumerable array of obedient marionettes, submitting to any movement of this monster. What can a man given an absolute power over his likes come to? Caligula thinks himself the only free citizen in the Roman Empire. Neither God, nor people created a law which he will humbly bow his head to. Fear is the only feeling which Caligula recognizes as perfect. The passion is cruelty for him, love is violence…