Man Equals Man

This work transfers the structure of theatre into the form of a two-player card game. Man Equals Man is based on Brecht’s idea of the transformability of identity—how a person can gradually become someone else under situational pressure and repeated mechanisms. Here, performance does not occur through actors but through the players’ decisions. Each round creates a new situation in which the player must choose between compliance, adaptation, or resistance. Identity is revealed not as fixed, but as the outcome of an ongoing process. The game functions as a performative system: the stage emerges within the players’ actions and mental space. The audience is no longer an observer but enters a structure where role, position, and identity are continuously redefined.