WHO ARE YOU, FRITZ HABER? at Marcus Performing Arts Center

English language premiere of Claude Cohen's award-winning French play. May 1, 1915. Nobel Prize winning chemist Fritz Haber has finished hosting a dinner with officers of the German General Staff, celebrating his unique contribution to the Great War, for on April 22nd Fritz directed the release of chlorine gas into the Allied trenches near the Belgian town of Ypres. Fritz Haber, on his own initiative has brought chemical warfare to the Western Front and into the 20th century. Clara Immerwahr is Fritz's wife and the first German woman to receive a Doctorate of Chemistry. A pacifist who insists the purpose of science is to serve man, she has been a gracious hostess but with the guests gone, she grimly, relentlessly confronts her famous husband with the horror of what he has done. The explosive argument that follows shatters the Haber family - and the world.