It is a fascinating play that asks tough questions about culpability in Hitler's rise to power, and it spurred many interesting conversations over the course of the run. S.F. Weekly analyzed it this way:

"Adolf Hitler has gone down in history…as a monstrous symbol of Ultimate Evil, a reputation that gives him a mystique he hardly deserves. Hitler was a petty, arid little bohemian from provincial Austria who failed as a painter but succeeded as a xenophobic thug."

Director Nicole Malkin was interested in the expression of gender stereotypes that exist in a movement of such brutality. In casting many of the gangsters as women, we hoped for the audience to view their actions through a uniquely gender-focused lens. To quote Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister:

"The Nationalist Movement is in its nature a masculine movement…While man must give life to the great lines and forms, it is the task of women out of her inner fullness and inner eagerness to fill these lines and forms with color."

We were proud to bring the play to you, and hope that our work continues to inspire communal exploration in the future.