The Private Life of the Master Race (aka Fear and Misery of The Third Reich)

by Bertolt Brecht

In a new American translation by Binyamin Shalom

Soho Rep's Walkerspace, New York City

The Private Life of the Master Race (aka Fear and Misery of The Third Reich) charts the submission of ordinary German citizens to the Nazi Party line. Suspicion, fear and the ever-narrowing parameters of patriotism are all surprisingly relevant in Brecht's response to regimen change in his native Germany in the 1930s.

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Director: James Phillip Gates

Set Design: Richard Hoover

Lighting Design: Andy Smith

Costume Design: Heather Klar

Technical Director: Mark Mocha

Production Stage Manager: Marta Stout

Sound Design: Susan Margaret Smale

Original Composition: Giovanni Spinelli

 

Cast: Kristin Barnett, Tracy Hostmyer, Betty Hudson, David Beck, Nicholas Daniele, Peter Levine, Khris Lewin and Brad Russell

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Vivid, clever and spare, preserving the spirit of Brecht's complex moral and social vision...James Phillip Gates directs with an eye to simplicity.

New York Times