"Why doesn't the devil come catch me?
With him it would be better than here."
-Eva Braun's Diary

"Men live by myths.
But women create them."
-Eva in
Summit Conference

            
                                                   by Robert David MacDonald
                                                   Directed by Kit Thacker

Summit Conference brings Hitler's and Mussolini's mistresses together for tea in a witty yet chilling and timeless exploration of unchecked power, anti-Semitism, and gender roles. Eva Braun and Clara Petacci talk first of music and fashion, but soon slide into a dangerous game in which each assumes her absent lover's authority, prejudices, and arrogance. A German soldier, at first their guard, becomes their plaything after he is revealed to be Jewish. If, as Eva observes, "Men live by myths. But women create them," then who is responsible when the myth veers into darkness?

Robert David MacDonald, the renowned Scottish playwright and director, originally wrote Summit Conference for the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.

"Indifference makes accomplices of us all, and we are responsible for other people's actions in a precise ratio to our power to prevent them from happening."
   —Robert David MacDonald

	Rated Critic's Choice in TimeOut NY four weeks in a row!