LOUIS CONTEY Hannah and Martin-Shattered Globe Theatre
If you are a student of 20th century philosophy, the distinguished works of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger will be familiar. For the rest of us, the Shattered Globe Theatre revival of Kate Foder’s “Hannah and Martin” directed by Louis Contey, is an opportunity to understand the relationship—and passionate love affair—between the young German-Jewish student and her mentor and the impact that the rise to power of the Nazi party had on the course of their lives. Set at various times from their first meeting in 1924 to the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, the play chronicles Heidegger’s fall from grace after his ill-fated public endorsement of Nazi party ideology and the conflict that Arendt and those around him face as a result.
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