Winter Solstice

by ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIG
translated by DAVID TUSHINGHAM
directed by BRADLEY MICHALAKIS

Christmas Eve: Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy. Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays, which is awkward, not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train, and now she’s invited him over for dinner. ‘Winter Solstice,’ a razor-sharp comedy by award-winning German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, plays with liberalism’s inability to immunize itself against fascism’s rhetorical power in this wildly theatrical and inventive production.