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From the Jury report:

“COPYRIOT is a compelling new chapter in the unfolding oeuvre of the young collective Krapp, who are building a fresh theatrical language marked by new dramatic texts, disquieting humour and visual inventiveness.”

Gloria always believed she was ‘pretty unique’.
Until one day she runs into herself.
Or rather, someone who is very much like her. Someone with exactly the same name, the same body, the same dreams.
The more she tries to be original, the more she gets stuck in a simulation of her own life.
Until she realises she has become exactly what she
had always fled from: a reproduction,
a duplicate,
a pastiche of herself. 

COPYRIOT is about the search for solid ground in a world that increasingly looks like a copy of a copy. Inspired by Charlie Kaufman’s films and by Dostoevsky’s absurdist short story The Double, Krapp wants to evoke a tragicomical mirror world full of strange duplications and dubious doppelgängers.

Although individuality appears to reign supreme, we are increasingly mistaken for our virtual doppelgängers: idealised ghosts that look a lot like us and – who knows – perhaps one day will become more ‘real’ than us.

Once again, Krapp tries to face the ‘monstrous’ with COPYRIOT. After dealing with paranoid cyborgs, gothic ghosts and the Devil himself, they now confront the biggest monster of modern times: the ego.