ALL THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH

CAST: 5 / 120 Minutes

Jewish-American siblings Isaac and Billie travel to Germany to commemorate their great aunt, who was murdered in the Shoah. Whilst hiking in the Black Forest, they seek refuge from a storm in a seemingly abandoned forest estate inhabited by two mysterious South German sisters, Eva and Lilith. As the house’s dark National Socialist history is uncovered, an ancient Jewish mystical legacy reawakens in the land—the revelation of Eva and Lilith’s own hidden Jewish lineage compels the strangers to confront their shared past, navigating the complexities of a fractured contemporary Jewish identity in diaspora.

Development History

Commended Script: Woven Voices / Gate Theatre Prize for Playwriting 2025
Commended Script: National Jewish Playwriting Contest 2025
Staged Reading: Kulturprojekte Berlin “80 Jahre Kriegsende”, ACUD, Berlin, GER 2025 (dir. Noémi Ola Berkowitz)
This script was developed as part of the 24/25 Soho Theatre Writer’s Lab