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A necessary meditation on the corrosiveness of fascism
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely restaging of a play premiered to world-wide acclaim in 1981
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Harold Pinter Theatre

 

IT’S Germany 1933; the Nazis have exploded into power; Jewish religious practices are outlawed and public conversation is peppered with anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Euthanasia for the infirm is openly discussed; Hitler’s cabinet have suspended the right to protest, and the world is about to be rocked to its foundations by one fanatical man and one uncompromising idea. What would you do if you were there?

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