Duchess Theatre, London: Brecht's angry, urgent political cartoon of a play was written in 1941 but not staged until 1958, two years after his death. While it boldly recasts the rise of Fascism in 1930s Germany into a story about a protection racket being masterminded by a Chicago gangster over local greengrocers, this modern morality play has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer trying to crack a particularly tou…
SOURCE: The Stage at 07:10AM on September 26, 2013