The Banality of Love

The play tells the story of the entirely non-platonic love between two major philosophers of the 20th century — Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. This is not a classical love story between an 18-year-old girl and a 35-year-old married man, where trust and a sense of duty are abused. Beyond the romance and the teacher–student relationship, the secret affair between the Jewish Hannah Arendt and the temporary Nazi Party member Martin Heidegger is both fascinating and unsettling.
Theatre, by its very nature, is a political art form, yet the political aspects of human life are transformed into compelling artistic images. The central subject of theatre’s exploration is the human being — the definition of their essence and the search for answers to how and in what forms humanity manifests itself. Such inquiry and analysis become all the more significant in light of the experience of the totalitarian and violent regimes of the 20th century. At the same time, it is important to note that politics, technological progress, and globalization play a major role in human daily life, questioning the very space and scope of individual freedom.