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Article: 'Hannah, Martin' potent at Theater.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(THEATER)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2005
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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
How much do we owe our teachers, the seminal people in our lives who taught us how to think? This is the question pondered by political philosopher Hannah Arendt (Elizabeth Rich) in Kate Fodor's searing play "Hannah and Martin," in a striking and cerebral production at Theater J under the direction of Jeremey B. Cohen.
Miss Arendt's most important teacher was none other than Martin Heidegger (John Lescault), the controversial and highly original thinker and Nazi sympathizer. Miss Arendt, a Jew, was his pupil in the classroom and the bedroom. He awakened her mind and, briefly, her body, in an intense affair ...