The first live virtual performances of the first five plays in The Brecht Project, entitled The Private Life of the (Not So) Master Race, premiered October 27, 28 and 29, 2020.
Read our Interview in ecibs - the Communications of the International Brecht Society
“While it may seem like a step too far to describe modern-day America as a direct analogue to Nazi Germany, this adaptation manages to reveal some darkly striking parallels between the two. It makes the audience sit back and wonder just how much of what we consider to be the unremarkable but inevitable realities of American life are actually symptoms of encroaching fascist ideologies. You walk away wondering if there is truly such a thing as an innocent bystander, and if not… what does that make you?” - Zoe A. Welch, Univ. of Puget Sound
Read the complete review of Our Oct. 2020 - Round 1 - here.
Why Round 2 now?
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich was one of the first documentary theatre pieces.
Brecht asked the world:
"How did this happen?
How did Germany come to be ruled by the National Socialist dictatorship?
How are the people's actions or inactions allowing the regime to thrive?
How and when will Resistance manifest?"
And so our Round 1 playwrights transported these same questions to 2020 America.
And, now, 2025 we are in a new America and it is time to ask these questions again.
