With his research into ammonia, Nobel-prize winning chemist Fritz Haber prevented mass starvation, saving billions of lives. Then the Great War broke out and he got into the really freaky stuff.
On the night the Father of Chemical Warfare throws a (very real) launch party for his chlorine gas, 1915’s hottest war criminal f*cking peaks. In this frenetic Faustian tragedy with pop-punk music, an ever-more-paranoid Fritz Haber loses himself chasing drugs and approval and Phantoms in the shadows. All the while, his wife Clara reaches the end of her rope, and the insidious Party threatens to consume Fritz’s house and his mind.
This play will be presented as a reading in NYC in 2024. Contact Me if you’re interested in reading.