GEIST at Horizon Theatre Rep

What does theatre know that we don't? 

German plays from the 1910s & 1920s. 

Ernst Toller's

The Transfiguration 

'We bring the Savior. Prepare for Salvation"

A complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.

Gottfried Benn's

Ithaka

"Who's to say what has driven you away? A curse, the Fall, or something else?"

Ithaka. The destination of a long journey, the supreme aim that every man tries to fulfill all his life long, the sweet homeland, the eternal calmness and  satisfaction. 

Walter Hasenclever's

The Son

"Under the guise of education you have committed a crime against me. This will be revenged"

Berlin 1914. A young man becomes a political revolutionary  and brings about

 the death of his father.