"Principles are a matter of time...
There are good ones that last a long time.
But they don't last forever."

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, also known as The Private Life of the Master Raceis one of Bertolt Brecht's most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works. It premiered in Paris on May 21, 1938.

In his letters Brecht explained that he didn't see the play as depressing but as a satire.

Through a tapestry of 24 stories Brecht portrays 1930s National Socialist Germany as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. They show how Nazism occupied all areas of the citizens' lives, filling them with prejudice, distrust and silence - the seedbanks of a dictator.

This piece, by one of the 20th century's most important playwrights has lost none of its power; it challenges the norms of theatre and our preconceptions of life in the topsy-turvy pre-WW2 Germany.