„Fear Eats the Soul” is a melodramatic tragifarce inspired by the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The play is set against an increasingly complex socio-political background and tells an intimate story about loneliness and the need for love and closeness – a longing that transcends social hierarchies, prejudice, and fear.

It is not just a story about love, but also about the changes occurring in Polish society as it absorbs the Other in the form of strangers and newcomers. Fear Eats the Soul examines ambiguous phenomena and emotions that emerge when the local meets the multicultural – including ones that elude public and media debates and thus remain surprising or incomprehensible to some people.

Award-winning creative team Jędrzej Piaskowski and Hubert Sulima have set their first production for Teatr Śląski in contemporary Silesia. With their trademark wit, distance, and sensitivity, they portray social tensions and the moods of today. They draw on Fassbinder's camp and caricature aesthetics in order to provide a whimsical account of the fight for independence, dignity, and peace of mind, while questioning our fears and the way they affect our relationships.

What are we really afraid of? Why does fear keep eating away at our souls? Is the devil really so black as he is painted?