KHAI plays Kleist
Broken trust, somnambulists, and sudden violence where a single misread sign shatters the whole order. The house lives at github.com/ChBrain/khai-plays-kleist.
§1 The plays @chbrain/khai-plays-kleist
A comedy of divine identity theft and the collapse of reliable self-knowledge.
Berlin's first daily newspaper, and Kleist's collision with Prussian censorship.
A marquis loses his mind when a beggarwoman he killed returns to haunt his castle.
An earthquake topples a society's laws, then the mob violently restores them.
A grand chivalric drama of unconditional trust, prophetic dreams, and sleepwalking.
An adopted son's ingratitude ruins the family and house of Piacenti that took him in.
A comedy in which Judge Adam presides over the trial of a crime he committed himself.
A trial by combat whose false victory throws divine justice itself into doubt.
A tragedy of suspicion and revenge spiralling fatally between two branches of one family.
Four iconoclasts are struck into eternal religious rapture by a miracle of the organ.
Hermann cunningly unites the Germanic tribes to annihilate the Roman legions.
A widow, pregnant from a swoon she cannot explain, searches for the father.
Trust and love fail tragically amid race war and revolution in Santo Domingo.
The shock to Kleist's certainty of knowledge after he reads Immanuel Kant.
A horse dealer's unbending demand for justice escalates into devastating violence.
Ludwig Tieck labours to rescue Heinrich von Kleist's scattered fragments.
A tragedy of the deadly clash between the law of the Amazons and absolute desire.
A drama of individual feeling against the relentless order of military law.
A tragic fragment of staged power and a plague concealed in the Norman war camp.
A dialogue on mechanical grace, human consciousness, and innocence lost after the Fall.
An essay on how clear thoughts take shape in the very act of speaking to a listener.
The record of the shared suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel at the Wannsee.