Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
A landmark of the Weimar Republic, Ernst Toller's Hoppla, We're Alive! is one of the founding works of what would later be come to known as the epic theater and a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Drew Lichtenberg is Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. and translator of this play.
A landmark of the Weimar Republic, Ernst Toller's Hoppla, We're Alive! is one of the founding works of what would later be come to known as the epic theater and a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Drew Lichtenberg is Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. and translator of this play.
