They derived from eyewitness accounts and newspaper reports, and today offer theatre’s most vivid account of life under the Nazis. Rarely played in full, they acquired an icy relevance when London’s Union theatre presented a selection of them in 2016. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bertolt Brecht’s Fear and Misery of the Third Reich offers theatre’s most vivid account of life under the Nazis. But in 30s theatre, there were multiple approaches to the subject of fascism. And if one masterwork of the decade seems more timely than ever, it is The Life of Galileo, which Brecht began writing in 1937.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2017 13:52 UTC