Design by Connor Cahill-Hayes
Cast
(Note: Scene numbers are indicated in brackets)
SS Officer (5), Senior Judge (6),
First SA Man (16)
SS Man (5), X (8),
Group Leader (12),
Butcher (19),
Older Worker (24)
Worker (3),
First Assistant (7),
Husband (9),
Gentleman
from the offices (13),
Pastor (20)
Second SS Officer (1),
Surgeon (7),
The student (12),
The worker (14),
The son (20)
Chauffeur (3), Y (8),
Announcer (13),
Farmer (18),
Dying Man (20)
First SS Officer (1),
Judge (6),
Young Worker (12),
Man (15),
Young Fellow (19),
Young Worker (24)
Man (2), Usher (6),
Worker (13),
Child (14), Third Boy (21),
SA Man (3), Man (23)
Second Patient (7),
The man (10), SA man (14),
Released (15),
Petit-Bourgeois (19),
Scharführer (21)
Woman (2), SS Man (4),
Second Assistant (7),
The boy (10),
The wife, (15),
First Boy (21
Jehovah's Witness (4),
Inspector (6),
Nurse + Sisters (7),
Mother (11),
The other (17),
The wife (20)
Old man (1),
Dievenbach (4),
Maidservant (1),
The one (17),
The woman (19),
5th Boy (21)
Detainee (5),
Prosecutor (6),
Farmer's wife (18),
Dairywoman (19),
Wife (23)
Lohmann (4), Wife (10),
Woman worker (13),
Second woman (19),
Woman (24)
Brühl (4), Maidservant (6),
Daughter (11),
Young woman (16),
Butcher's wife (19),
Second Boy (21)
Cook (3), First Patient (7),
Jewish Wife (9),
Old worker (13),
Old woman (16)
Maidservant (3),
Third Assistant (7),
Woman (14), 4th Boy (21),
Neighbour (23)
Tom Cannon
Chuquai Billy
Chamat Arambewela
Dave Flanagan
Ian Powell
Ian Russell
Shay Leacy
Stuart Clark
Asheigh Cole
Jessica Irwin
Julie Rickwood
Michelle Hanks
Sarah Flanagan
Sarah Sabo
Sharon Trotter
Anastasia Oh
Production Team
Director - Aleida Izquierdo
Assistant Director - Jose Fernandez
Producer - Victoria Bettelheim
Stage Manager - Danielle Keene
Lighting - Robert Bettelheim
Sound - Stephen Wess
Set Designer - Shihling Huang
Costumes - Carmen Jones Poulten
Front of House Management Team - Jackie Withnall, Gill Taylor
"Principles are a matter of time...
There are good ones that last a long time.
But they don't last forever."
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, also known as The Private Life of the Master Raceis one of Bertolt Brecht's most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works. It premiered in Paris on May 21, 1938.
In his letters Brecht explained that he didn't see the play as depressing but as a satire.
Through a tapestry of 24 stories Brecht portrays 1930s National Socialist Germany as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. They show how Nazism occupied all areas of the citizens' lives, filling them with prejudice, distrust and silence - the seedbanks of a dictator.
This piece, by one of the 20th century's most important playwrights has lost none of its power; it challenges the norms of theatre and our preconceptions of life in the topsy-turvy pre-WW2 Germany.
