This year’s sixth and final Sketch from the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece, Countless small bright ideas, conceived and created by Fotis Siotas, premieres on Friday 3 April at the Dipylon Theatre.

Eight actors, singing and playing live music, perform a fractured oratorio of self-doubt. Eight voices convey thoughts, disagree, argue, and disorientate the creature they inhabit. Everyone is pitted against everyone else, casting doubt on everything – and all they have in common is what they don’t doubt. Destitute, defeated, like a dissonant chorus, they encounter challenges, a journey towards self-fulfilment, the dilemma of whether to accept a well-paid job from a corrupt employer, a decaying party, and an oasis in a stadium.

Countless small bright ideas is about the trajectory of doubt over time: first forbidden, then permitted (but suspect), and now full of meaning but possibly futile. It features a choral ensemble, songs, rising tones that refuse to be downbeat, a creature, and a journey towards a question mark.

This non-linear work set to music for eight voices, piano, sax, and hi-hat provides a strange, distorted framework through which we can shape narratives, employing a poetic discourse to question dogma, common sense, and – most of all – ourselves.