A pack of dogs bred to fight is running around in the pit of the theater. The audience stands on the stage, lured by the promise of singing pit bull terriers. Cut to another evening: spectators are given the option of spending the night in the theater.

A different evening finds the building deserted: the players have migrated to private apartments around Berlin. The Hebbel am Ufer,so far as we can see, does things differently. The experimental three-theatre ensemble known as Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), which groups together the Hebbel-Theater (HAU 1), Theater am Halleschen Ufer (HAU 2) and the small Theater am Ufer (HAU 3) has an aversion to conventional theatre.

The HAU prefers mining the terrain of reality — its weirder, anyway.