The Weimar Republic is the government of Germany, as referred to between the years 1919 and 1933. Early on during this period, the Weimar Republic ended widespread censorship and “enacted liberal social policies.” The new policies attracted “artists, scientists, and ‘outsiders’ such as gays and lesbians from around the world.” This setting was a place where traditional rules regarding gender and sexuality were questioned. There were gay and lesbian bars, and women, who entered the workforce during World War I, had new access to birth control, no longer controlled by marriage and child-rearing. Berlin, specifically, sported many night entertainment sources, including cabarets; there were mainly two types, the literary cabaret and the populist entertainment with left-slant politics cabaret that resembled a nightclub. The cabarets of the early 1920’s shone with optimism and exuberance, “featur[ing] kick-lines of beautiful women.” Following the Depression of the early 1930’s, cabarets shifted in tone from luxury to mockery of the powers that be. The visual aesthetics of the Weimar Republic cabarets serve as inspiration for our production’s design.