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April Whalley's avatar

Great writing as always! I love your 'reviewing' skills - on the show and on the history! Masterfully done, stepping carefully through a minefield of shit piles. Makes me wish I was going to the theatre to see shows with friends and having heated discussions afterwards...

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

I’d love to step in all the shit piles with you discussing theatre, art, and poetry. 😂 thanks, April. As always, you put a smile on my face.

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Mary Poindexter McLaughlin's avatar

Well done, nerd! Made me want to hop a flight to your Windy City and see it. (Could I catch your show, too? No, really, I'm serious!) xox

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Mary Poindexter McLaughlin's avatar

Damn, I just looked it up. Today's the last show for Berlin. But yours, on the other hand...😏

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

Damn, Mary, don’t tease. I mean, if that is possible, I would be over the moon. It would be a dream. If it’s possible, please come stay with me. You know what, I’m gonna text ya.

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Franz Kafka's avatar

I may have missed it as I was scanning/skimming but, for context, would the most obvious precursor to this play - "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui" by Bertolt Brecht - not have been useful in your review?

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

I’ve heard of that play but as a theatre “professional,” I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never seen nor read it. I’ll add to my list. This play was Brechtian in the way it broke fourth wall rules.

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Franz Kafka's avatar

It may have been a lot more ‘Brechtian ‘than is healthy for the rules of plagiarism… sorry, borrowing. There are not many critics with humility in the world. You have shown some. You are probably a good one.

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

🙏 humbled. Thank you.

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Great review! Inclusion of the Ye/Fuentes meme? Simply perfection.

7/7 yellow hearts from me.

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

🙏 The Ye/Fuentes is perhaps a little over people’s heads but I’m glad you appreciated it. It’s also a little extra given Ye’s cousin’s BJ tweets. 👀 even after all that, Fuentes still ended up the gay one in the meme…

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

I loved it.

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

What a skillful review. Reading it I felt a tangible sense 'loss' at not having seen the play. Well done, you.

And yes, we must tease out art from history, especially when that history is an artful weaving of facts and fiction, currently being undone.

Strange, challenging and wonderful times.

I honestly believe art - creativity in all forms - is on the rise as a primary value and reflection of what it is to be human. What has been oppressed about us, is coming back with force.

Loved this. Thank you, Tonika.

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

Thank YOU!

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Isaac Middle's avatar

You walked the WW2 tightrope masterfully. In short: you are now indebted to the Fuhrer for at the least not needing a new windscreen.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Ha, what a great way to put that! I agree, Isaac.

I love having a woman play Hitler. That alone gives this nuance. The Weimar Republic has been chewing at some of my synapses. Was the decadence of the 'Golden 20's' from those who had profited from the reparations and sold out Germany for the Balfour--those YahChoPeeps?

Instigated by this, I did a web search to find out when the 'Feder bills' designed by Gottfried Feder replaced the debt- and reparations- based Reichsmark. Nada. Zip. Nothing comes up.

So then I went to the man himself and the penny dropped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Feder. Reading between the li(n)es, Feder is the threat that Hitler was sent to neuter. His party was the German Workers Party, to which Hitler added National Socialist. He wrote the 25 Points and defeated an attempt by Goebbels to amend it and evict Feder from the meeting. He even has the iconic mustache that I'm certain Hitler imitated. It's all been rewritten to make him the servant of Hitler, but take one look at this guy's face and tell me who you'd trust--Hitler or him?

He's the architect of the brilliant economic reforms that defeated the Rothschild cartel. In 1931, it says that Hitler steered the party away from Feder's views because it threatened the 'major industrialists' particularly Hjalmar Schacht:

"Schacht wrote in the 'Magic of Money' that "National Socialist agitation under the leadership of Gottfried Feder" aimed to curtail "private banking" and "the entire currency system." He further explained that the goal of Feder and his pupils was to destroy their entire "banking and monetary economy" and concludes that he "had to try to steer Hitler away from these destruction conceptions."

And he did, Schacht becoming Hitler's President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Feder was made a mere Secretary. He continued to write The Fight against High Finance, Die Juden, and The New City. Now here's something really crazy. His concept of the 'agricultural city' is no more than 20,000 people divided into nine autonomous units, each surrounded by agricultural land. "Unlike other garden city theorists, he believed that urban areas could be reformed by subdividing the existing built environment into self-sufficient neighborhoods."

It parallels my commonwealth system! My village is the size of his agricultural city with nine autonomous hamlets divided into nine neighborhoods. The commonwealth is the trading area of the village caret, and unique to each village so that no one can be on the border.

Wikipedia also states: "his concept of decentralized factories was successfully opposed by both generals and Junkers. Generals objected because it interfered with rearmament, and Junkers because it would prevent their exploiting their estates for the international market."

Duh!

"When Hjalmar Schacht took office as Minister of Economics on 2 August 1934, one of his first actions was to fire Feder from his State Secretary post. Feder then served as Reichskommissar for Settlement until December 1934. He also was a member of Hans Frank's Academy for German Law. Feder ended up becoming Professor for Settlement Policy at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in December 1936, where he stayed until his death in Murnau, Bavaria, on 24 September 1941."

Hans Frank, Anne Frank? Connection? And an early death at 58 in Bavaria. Hmmm...

Thanks for sending me down this wombat hole!

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

Holeee sheeeet! Where did you get this information? Did you already write a Substack on this? The parallel to your system is uncanny. And the fact the Hitler stole this template… please send me down this rabbit hole. I’m in the thick of my clown show but will most definitely bookmark to return to in two weeks. Very interested.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

I have NOT written that stack. This is all new info, to which I was led by you, the wombat and Goddess. But I WILL be writing that stack!

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

🙌

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

What’s a windscreen? Is that some Aussie word whose equivalent in America I’m unsure of? Is it a windshield? Like what you have on your car?

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Isaac Middle's avatar

I shall answer with one of the great Aussie ad jingles:

https://youtu.be/KQJ_DhSE1Sg?si=FOaRN7fZ2j-w9VC8

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

wtf I'm in Perth.

I just played this for my family and they said NO STOP PLS.

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Isaac Middle's avatar

lol that is a very fair reaction. I believe there may have even been a longer version than this one at some point

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

That's what they said 'hey where's the rest of it.'

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

HAhaha! We should all have a few jingles up our sleeves for such an occasion!

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

Lol. I can smell the analogue off this commercial.

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Much of Australia is still in 'analogue.'

We're fighting modernity as a matter of principle at this point.

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

👊

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

I should clarify: it is only incompetence and mother nature that is saving us at this point LMAO.

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