Southwark Playhouse, London: Set in Germany in the early 1930s, Tony Kushner's play depicts the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler through the filter of Reagan's America. Inspired in part by Brecht's The Private Life of the Master Race, the play concerns a group of rather self-regarding left-leaning friends, their shifting ideals, their fears, their inertia. There's an element of t…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:17AM on July 28, 2014