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From Morning to Midnight

From Morning to Midnight

Kaiser, Georg
Kelly, Dennis

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

Plays

ISBN10: 1783190132
ISBN13: 9781783190133
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 15 2014
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle-class daily life is ultimately frustrated. It is a popular piece in which Kaiser satirized the cheapness and futility of modern society. His hero, a kind of machine-age Everyman, searches everywhere for some kind of fulfilment - in commercial sex, in salvationist religion - but discovers through a series of nightmarish episodes that the world is deceitful and illusory. In the end, disillusioned and pursued by the police, he takes his own life.

This new version by Dennis Kelly, opened at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre in November 2013, as part of the National's 50th Anniversary Season.

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