Spirit and the Dust

Since then, her life has been overshadowed by tragic twists of fate and the question of guilt. During an apartment viewing, she meets the young couple Margaret and Will. She befriends Margaret, who soon takes a different course in her future. Shortly afterward, she meets Will's father, a retired Latin teacher, in whom Hope finds support and solace. His life, too, is marked by loss.

Then there are the security consultant Jerry and the neighbor Donna. All of them are adrift and shaped by life's hardships, who find themselves bound together in a kind of community of fate during a time of uncertainty.

• Is there hope in times of great life crises?
  
• Is there life after shipwreck?
  
• And can tost heal wounds?
  

Noah Haidle, award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose works are performed on Broadway, in the US, and worldwide, has crafted a powerful piece about what we call life:

about friendship, late-life love, and profound pain. Following "The Homemaker" and "Birthday Candle," director Anna Bergmann is staging her third world premiere at the Deutsches Theater with a Noah Haidle play.