A German-Estonian raid: Pirates lie through their teeth. They use their jewelry as weapons and their weapons as jewelry. On their journey through the world's markets, they encounter exotic money machines, buried treasure, unscrupulous governors, distressed damsels and man-eaters. They rob, scorch, murder and cheat in the name of justice until they finally dangle from the gallows in the marketplace. Aye, Aye!!! Life is a raid!

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot with Von Krahl Theater Tallinn / Music: Albrecht Kunze / Choreography: Angela Guerreiro, Tamas Moricz, Showcase Beat Le Mot  / Production Management: Florian Ackermann, Tobias Brenk

Europiraadid is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot with Forum Freies Theater (FFT) Düsseldorf, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, Donaufestival Krems, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel, Hamburg.
Funded by Nationales Performance Netz as part of Tanzplan Deutschland of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, Kunststiftung NRW, Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Ministerpräsident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Theorem supported by Culture 2000 program of the European Union, Kultuuriministerium Estland, Goetheinstitut Tallinn, Gohotel Shnelli Tallinn.

The eight performers set sail for this German-Estonian raid from the Kampnagel-Klub with rum and suckling pig for everyone. They plunder the pool of pirate clichés that the stage shakes like a ship in a storm. The nine-scene heist takes the audience into the depths of rebellious dreams of freedom and the heights of economic speculation under the flag of the (deceptive) EU unity....Showcase Beat Le Mot succeed time and again in exposing the audience to a surprising alternating bath of anger and laughter, of impertinence and fascination...
(Hamburger Abendblatt, 11 December 2006)