Playing Hitler

As fascism rears its ugly head around the globe, we artists stand at a crossroads. Do we go blindly on making our art as normal, hoping that people need entertainment more than ever in dark times? Do we drop our tools and take to the streets? Do we gear our work to directly reflect what’s going on?

This is the dilemma that faces a group of theatre makers in January 1933. Hitler’s about to be made Chancellor. Do they dare make a play that mocks him? Who benefits? And who will be the victims?

Playing Hitler is about political image and fictional truth. Set in Berlin in 1912, 1933 and 2025, it’s centred around a number of efforts to play Hitler and represent him on the stage as queer. Through the historical investigation of  queerness, the fight for sexual liberation and the oppression of difference echo and repeat themselves.