King's Head, London: When philosopher Walter Benjamin committed suicide while trying to escape Nazi persecution, the briefcase he carried with him was lost for good. In this work of fiction based on fact, playwright Carl Djerassi suggests that it contained correspondence of a pornographic nature between Benjamin and his contemporary Theodor Adorno's wife Gretel. The discovery of this briefcase sets off a chain o…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:55AM on May 6, 2014