Hosting a production which 'questions everything we think we know' about ourselves, about the essence of theatre and the space of play, means accepting a challenge. When the production in question is the 'Trial of Socrates' directed by Tomi Janežič for the 64th Dubrovnik Summer Festival it literally means putting theatre on trial. Originally performed on a fortress Lovrijenac - powerful defence locus of Dubrovnik - the play revived the Socrates method in its audience's minds. Asking for an active spectator willing to open up questions of death, death penalty, freedom, democracy, rights of 'the others'..., this play aimed at picking of the fundamental questions of human existence and revising/reassessing of our own pre-concepts. This was obtained through a few layers of demarcation, concluded with the divided body of audience into 2 identical tiered seatings in juxtaposition. Meanwhile the very 'stage' was narrowed to 60cm in the middle. Physical exclusion of the actor left the audience facing each other while listening to dramatic compiled audio that echoed in this space.

Denominating this production not as SITE-SPECIFIC, but as CONTEXT-SPECIFIC we design a necessary architectural framework for it, locating it at the Spree river. As a 'no mans land' once dividing East and West Berlin, this specific spatial spot embraces an enlightened experimental theatre space.