Romeo Castellucci: Bros tickets

Men pulled from the street, none of them actors, put on police uniforms and agreed to one rule: obey. Commands arrive through hidden earpieces, and they follow them, whatever comes, with no rehearsal and no way to know what the next order will be. Out of that pact, Romeo Castellucci builds Bros, a monumental and genuinely unsettling farce about obedience, force, and how quickly a person hands responsibility to someone else’s voice.

The result is hallucinatory, a run of images at once slapstick and terrifying, laced with pop culture, Christian iconography, and the visual language of the nightly news. Castellucci is one of the towering figures of European theater, and this long-overdue U.S. appearance is his art at full scale: overwhelming to look at, impossible to settle, asking where violence begins and who agrees to carry it out.