Based on the Hannah Arendt’s controversial idea “The Banality of Evil” and her scandalous  New Yorker article about 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. 

Hannah Arendt was an influential German Jewish political philosopher, theorist of totalitarianism and anti-semitism, and refugee surviver of the Third Reich.  In her infamous article on the Eichmann trial, Arendt reports in person from the Jerusalem courtroom and concludes that the accused architect of “Final Solution” is not a fanatical monster, but a thoughtless clown.

THE BANALITY OF EVIL tries to solve the mysteries of how did Eichmann 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?

CREDITS:
Performed by: Rawya El Chab,Torres, Dara Callie Silverman
Director: Jesse Freedman
Costume Designer: Karen Boyer
Sound Designer & Composer: Avi Amon
Scenic Designer: Kyu Shin
Lighting Designer: Yi-Chung Chen
Stage and Production Manager: Jennifer Deane
Intern/ Assistant Director: Luke Hicks

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