Europe has many stories and many faces: a continent, an idea, a centre of power. From fortress to free-trade zone to spark of joy – and back again. But also: a kidnapped princess and a pole dancer who is always on the move and has seen it all. What has become of her, after more than two thousand years held captive by various ideologies, dictators and bearers of hope? How is she? And where on earth is she?

In Laura Laab’s interpretation of the figure of Europe, she is embodied by the performer and singer Cora Frost, under the musical direction of Leo Solter, accompanied by the Schlangenknaben as the Hydra.