Five Easy Pieces (Milo Rau) about how we deal with the emotional shock and pain caused by an extremely upsetting experience. Milo Rau's "Five Easy Pieces" is also a reflection on theatre. The title "Five Easy Pieces" refers to a series of exercises that Igor Stravinsky composed in 1917 in order to teach children how to play the piano, and that were also called "Five Easy Pieces". The theatre production of Milo Rau is made up of five monologues, each offering a different perspective on how children learn to act and how they learn to grow up. Milo Rau sees his performances as "Lehrstücke", in
Five Easy Pieces (Milo Rau) always looking for the traumatic, tragic moments in the lives of both individuals and a country, because we are most affected and changed in those moments. However, Milo Rau's intention was not to create an accurate representation of the Dutroux affair with "Five Easy Pieces", but a modern tragedy with Dutroux as the starting point. His intention was to make "a children's theatre performance that was risky, unprecedented and virtually impossible." With the life and the crimes of Marc Dutroux as a starting point he searches in "Five Easy Pieces" for the limits of "what children know, feel and do",