The
Cabaret Voltaire
The Cabaret
Voltaire creatively tackles the birth of the
literary and artistic movement summed up by the
(mostly) nonsensical word - Dada. Set in
Europe in the midst of the incomprehensibility
of the First Great War, this script bounds with
verbal wit and dramatic intensity. A
group of free spirits release all claims to a
world in which a million people can die on a
battlefield. And when the war
invades their haven, they are forced to pit
allegiance against ideology against
love. Dada's real heroes: Tristan
Tzara, Hugo Ball, and Hans Arp, are vigorously
roused, to again represent that quintessentially
indefinable faction of poets and painters.
