Fear and Misery in the Third Reich

WATFORD PALACE THEATRE TOURING PROJECT

Writer: Bertolt Brecht

Director: Kirstie Davis

Another show-in-a-box, this time an aluminium cube for Fear + Misery in the Third Reich.

The play was told through the eyes of Auschwitz prisoners. The set contained traces and

 elements of the concentration camp, with the gates of Auschwitz forming the back

 section of the cube. Stories were told through a pile of old shoes, an actor putting a

pair on became the protagonist. A fascination with boxes was the entire inspiration, the

 net of a box forming a floor to the set, folding up into a prison for the actors, within the

 obvious confines of the larger box structure.