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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PM on January 11, 2016