For Europeans, encountering America has always been a paradox: everything feels known through film, television, and literature, yet the reality remains elusive — like meeting an old friend you’ve never met before. psychopatriot steps into that contradiction, weaving a fractured collage of voices, found texts, and staged fictions.

The performers embody “real Americans” whose stories were gathered on travels across the U.S., while also projecting their own half-true, half-imagined versions of what America means from afar. Irony and sincerity coexist uneasily: testimony dissolves into cliché, newsreel into melodrama, satire into confession. Fact and fiction slide against each other until the borderlines blur — a portrait of a nation that lives as much in its own myths as in its truths.

At the heart of psychopatriot lies the question of narrative ownership: who gets to tell America’s story, and who believes it? The production shows how easily fear, hope, and desire bend memory into fiction, and how those fictions can quickly harden into history. This tension — between the inside and the outside, the authentic and the invented — drives the trilogy forward, as winter guests continue to test how theatre can hold a mirror to the world’s most mythologized nation.