Should Switzerland join an international democracy alliance? The fictional question behind a recent performance in Zurich questions the country’s global role and the links between politics and theatre. In September 1946, in a famous speech at the University of Zurich, Winston Churchill called for a “United States of Europe” to follow the cataclysm of the Second World War. Almost 80 years later, on a balmy Friday evening in the same hall, his spirit is being invoked. This time, however, the ta...