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Schiklgruber, alias Adolf Hitler
Stuffed Puppet Theatre
SOLD OUT
The Netherlands - NL spoken • FR overtitled
Concept, puppets and performance: Neville Tranter | Playwright: Jan Veldman | Director: Theo Fransz | Lighting: Desirée van Gelderen.
Berlin, April 1945. Soviet soldiers are at the gates of Berlin. Adolf Hitler, hidden in his bunker, is nearing the end of his days. The roof is about to cave in. A handful of faithful supporters are celebrating the Führer's birthday: Goebbels and his six children, the valet Linge and Eva, whom Hitler married the day before this fateful, deadly evening.
Neville Tranter, in uniform and alone on stage with his puppets, inhabits all of the characters with astonishing virtuosity. Death is there as well, capricious and clumsy in its tragically grotesque confrontation with Schicklgruber, Hitler's real name. Without making the caricatures of Hitler or Eva Braun touching, Tranter does manage to unveil the all-too-human mediocrity of these monsters.
With his brutal, pitiless and humorous poetry, Neville Tranter, Australian actor and puppeteer living in the Netherlands, has held audiences breathless all over the world for more than 25 years, never hesitating to deal with the most disturbing stories in order to exorcise our fears and guilty desires.
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