Which will you choose? Revolution or love?
Should a deadline be imposed on the dilemma, I hope it is 100 years.

Drums in the Night was premiered at Münchner Kammerspiele in 1922 when Bertolt Brecht was only 24 years of age and had not yet achieved his fame as a theater master. It’s a story about choices. As in the real life, each choice has its own story.

Anna is convinced that her lover Kragler has been dead in the war and therefore agrees to her parents’ arrangement for her to marry a manufacturer who has never fought the war but instead gained profit from the war. However, Kragler is not dead and returns to Berlin only to find out that he has nothing. In disappointment and anger, he devotes himself to the cause of revolution and becomes a leader in the movement. On the eve of an important uprising, Anna comes back to him. Faced with the choice between his lover and the uprising, he hesitates briefly before making a decision: he chooses to desert the insurgency and go home with his lover.

Interestingly, even while Bertolt Brecht was writing this play, he struggled with the ending and was said to regret it throughout his life from then on. Nearly 100 years later, 33-year-old Director Christopher Rüping from the new generation chooses to reproduce the play at the theater where it was premiered and to interpret it with two different endings. Brecht proposed a dilemma in Drums in the Night, while Rüping bravely imposes a deadline for the dilemma. After nearly one century, when both the time and the stage have gone through revolution, will we have different opinions toward the controversial ending in the original play?