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The Informer
Author(s): Bertolt Brecht
Set in the living room of a middle class family on a Sunday afternoon in the late 1930s, Brecht describes his play as “a dramatic sketch of family life as it is today in the new Hiter’s Germany.” A teacher and his wife are terrified that their son, a member of the Hitler Youth, will turn them in for their negative statements about the Nazism. They are even fearful that their maid, also a committed Nazi, will inform on them. The teacher attempts to find ways to make his actions more politically acceptable.
Format: Short Play/Drama
Cast Size: 1M/2F/1 boy
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Original Language: German
English Language Translator: Eric Bentley
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism