Photo: Michael Zirkle

Created by Hoi Polloi

February 20 – March 1, 2014

Presented by Duke Performances

Brooklyn theater company Hoi Polloi creates full-throttle theatrical experiences that look at how Americans come together and how we fall apart. In that vein, the OBIE Award-winning company the New York Times lauded for their “audacity, invention, and talent” takes on the father of western philosophy’s blueprint for nation-building: Plato’s Republic.

Republic tackles the massive moral questions raised by Socrates, against an ever-shifting dream-like backdrop of characters and settings. An intimate audience joins their symposium, to address a fundamental human question: Why be good? Artistic Director Alec Duffy, a Duke graduate, developed Republic over a two-year residency on campus; the result is an adventure that stimulates both the senses and the synapses.

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