Fear and Misery of the Third Reich review " Brecht's chilling vision of nazism
Union theatre, LondonBertolt Brecht is often thought to be preachy and simplistic, but these plays prove otherwise, offering a complex montage of life in Nazi Germany Brecht wrote this collection of short plays about Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1938, when he was in exile. Phil Willmott, using the John Willett translation, has omitted some of the 24 pieces that make up the sequence but, as director, has fashioned a …