First created in 2000 as a response to the Balkans crisis, Macedonian playwright Goran Stefanovski's Hotel Europa remains all too relevant to the ever-increasing flow of refugees from war-torn countries incapable of sustaining them.

In the 16 years since the play premiered we have become much more aware that capitalism-without-boarders – including an amoral (if not psychopathic) arms industry – deciding the fate of the world; and that elected governments are too often in its thrall and the people they supposedly represent have very low status in the grotesque quest for ever-expanding growth and profit.

Hotel Europa certainly puts displaced people at the effect of exploiters, while book-ending and threading it through with the timeless and universal desire for ‘home'. The existential question of whether people are victims of external forces or predestination, or the authors of their own destinies, is up for scrutiny as we watch them do as they feel they must to survive or even, sometimes, contribute.

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Written by: Goran Stefanovski

Directed by: Anna Marbrook

Set and Costume Design: Kasia Pol

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Photo: Kasia Pol & Philip Merry