Jerusalem-born director Yael Ronen and her Kazakh-born German co-author Dimitrij Schaad have invented a troll factory to show how the fake news business works.

The play premiered on Saturday evening and not only works through various conspiracy narratives, like Is Prince Charles actually a vampire? Or Greta Thunberg a time traveller? And what about the assassination of John F Kennedy?; It also takes a look at the digitalized world and the political establishment.

At some point, it is not just fake news that is supposed to influence society, but a new top politician. A man with a Saxon accent – who was allegedly once the advertising face of a chocolate brand as a child – is to be made chancellor of Germany. With his wig, he looks a bit like former US President Donald Trump.

Director Ronen was just invited to the Theatertreffen, an annual celebration in the German capital of the best of German-language theatre, with her musical “Slippery Slope.” Now she follows it up with the entertaining “Operation Mindfuck.”

In one and a half hours, many things are touched on – even if only fleetingly. “You hacked my mobile phone?” an employee of the fake news unit wants to know from her boss at one point. Her boss responds amused: “Hacked…. what are we, in the 90s? I don’t hack phones. I hack people.”

“A wild ride through filter bubbles, conspiracy theories and unbelievable historical events – based on a true story, but not really. So, a real mindfuck,” the theatre says on its website.

The play runs until Saturday.