By Meta-Phys Ed.

March 21 – April 6, 2024

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: Eamon Goodman

Scenic Designer: Nora Marlow Smith

Lighting Designer: Elizabeth M Stewart

Stage Manager: Jennifer Deane

Production Manager: Grady Shea

Technical Director: Grady Shea

Assistant Director: Stewart Harrison

Original Designs by: Kyu Shin (Scenic), Yi-Chung Chen (Lights) and Avi Amon (Sound)

THE BANALITY OF EVIL tries to solve the mystery of how a traveling vacuum salesman accidentally becomes a Nazi and commits crimes against humanity? What caused the collapse of the show trial of the century collapses? How did a magazine article becomes the center of global controversy?

cw: fog, descriptions of genocide

THE BANALITY OF EVIL was developed in residency at Target Margin Theater (2022) and was presented as workshop at The Tank, a home for emerging artists (2022).

Image by Raven Walker