Spanish director Roger Bernat　has been continuously in search of new possibilities regarding the relation between theatre and society and has with works strongly evoking socio-cultural conflicts created a stir in the European theatre scene. His work "Public Domain" - influenced by situationist ideas - leaves the theater buidling behind to unfold his idea of publicness in the urban space, in a square in the middle of the everyday street life.

The performance "Public Domain" is based on very simple elements. A public square, headphones, some simple rules and the 'audience'. In this theatre piece, actors and actresses won't appear. All of the 150 'spectators' are participants. Via headphones they listen to questions referring to the history and geography of their country, their city and their personal life and customs. While responding to these questions, due to certain instructions also given via the headphones, they move around in the square. Through the participants simple movements, small groups start to form in the audience. These micro communities expose underlying social patterns and tell a tale that Bernat carefully orchestrates.

„Public Domain" targets the concept of publicness that recently has become a subject to permanent change due to the increasing application and diversification of new media, especially the internet.

"We got used to playing with our own identity by faking it. We use different nicknames in the internet, we put real or fake pictures to our profiles etc. And it is not just in the internet. We are characters, (re)acting according to certain situations and expectations. In the game, "Public Domain" sets up, whether they answer correctly or lie. Some questions are personal and some touch areas, we usually do not speak about. And in the end even the true answers are in a way always constructions." (Roger Bernat)

Bernat questions the frame of the relation between individual and the public sphere in a performance under participation of the audience, applying an experience, that can only be implemented live, 'here and now'.