About the Show

Horizon Theatre Rep presents a mystery about a group of soldiers caught in an eerie limbo, who perform short plays to pass the time.

During the waning days of World War I, a platoon of soldiers vanished without a trace. But tapes of short plays they enacted have recently been discovered. 'Geist!' documents these short plays, read and performed at a bombed-out church by soldiers waiting for their next orders. The production includes 'Sancta Susanna' (1911) by August Stramm, 'The Guardian of the Tomb' (1916) by Franz Kafka. 'The Transfiguration. 3rd station' (1919) by Ernst Toller, 'Ithaka' (1914) by Gottfried Benn, and 'Crucifixion' (1920) by Lothar Schreyer.

Critic Reviews (1)

"Never once was the location, time, or reason for these soldiers being in what one can only assume was a bunker in WWI spoken of. Instead they literally went from story to story and it was hard to follow…The ongoing theme with 'Geist' is that the idea was there, but the execution was not. Overall, 'Geist' was not something to see if you like plays that have logical explanations and clear plot points."
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