Playing the Steward in the staged reading of the new English translation of

Immanuel Kant

By Thomas Bernhard, Translated by Douglas Robertson, Directed by Drew Lichtenberg

The Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Goethe Institut, and Johns Hopkins University collaborate to present the North American premiere of Immanuel Kant, an early-career masterwork by Thomas Bernhard, the great provocateur of post-World War II German theater and literature. Meet Immanuel Kant. He’s depressed and going blind. He’s traveling on a steamship somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, near the same iceberg that sank the Titanic. And he’s accompanied by a parrot that repeats everything he says. In a world where there is no firm ground, what is reality and what is philosophy? Presented in honor of the 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth during the “Kant and the World Today” conference of the North American Kant Society.