A Bright Room Called Day

The play follows a group of artists and activists in 1930s Berlin as fascism takes hold around them, and they decide whether to wait or act, stay or go, fight or flee. Kushner originally wrote Bright Room in the 1980s as a direct response to Reagan’s America. Nearly 40 years later, the parallels between Hitler’s Germany and today feel even more eerily resonant. The play’s questions about art, politics, friendship, fear, and what we do as the world disintegrates around us become very immediate when you’re sitting in someone’s kitchen, a few feet from the people living through it. Just like we’re all living through it, more and more each day.