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The Banality of Evil
Based on Hannah Arendt’s controversial idea “The Banality of Evil” and her scandalous article in The New Yorker magazine, covering the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1963. Meta-Phys Ed.’s THE BANALITY OF EVIL is a neo-noir courtroom drama about a “show-trial on trial”, and the mystery about how everyday people become war criminals.
Performed by: Rawya El Chab, Romeo Torres, Sophie Morrison Director: Jesse Freedman Costume Designer: Karen Boyer Sound Designer & Composer: Avi Amon Scenic Designer: Nora Marlow Smith Lighting Designer: Elizabeth M Stewart Stage Manager: Jennifer Deane
THE BANALITY OF EVIL tries to solve the mystery of how a traveling vacuum salesman accidentally becomes a Nazi and commits crimes against humanity?
cw: fog, descriptions of genocide
THE BANALITY OF EVIL was developed in residency at Target Margin Theater (2022) and was presented as a workshop at The Tank, a home for emerging artists (2022).
Image by Raven Walker
Venue: The Brick
579 Metropolitan Ave
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