The Robbers

By Friedrich Schiller

Adapted by Becca Wolff
and Jacob Gallagher-Ross

Directed by Becca Wolff

Fri. December 12 8PM
Sat. December 13 8PM
Mon. December 15 8PM
Tue. December 16 8PM
Wed. December 17 8PM
Thu. December 18 8PM


Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT

$10 Students
$15 Senior
$20 Regular

If we could take a snapshot of the human race in our young millennium, would we see a species beyond the brutalities of its past? Could we say we have learned to make progress without destroying each other? In Schiller’s 18th century German classic The Robbers, one brother double-crosses another to gain their father’s fortune. Thus begins an epic tale of revenge and madness; a single broken heart creates a national emergency. In this updated production, states will rise and fall in our own backyards because the problem of this play is very much alive to me: human beings are still alone in the space between angels and animals. And we still need to figure out how to live there.

Becca Wolff

 

 

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