A Play So Provocative!
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Wednesday, 18 February 2026
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A Play So Provocative!
One has heard of people protesting against plays that offend then, getting them banned and so on, but what an actor in Berlin went through was shocking.
Deborah Cole of The Guardian, reported from Berlin, that actor Ole Lagerpusch "was shouted down, pelted with fruit and subjected to an attempted stage invasion as he delivered a final monologue in character as a far-right activist."
The violent scenes came during a performance of the Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues's work Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing, which is a provocative anti-Fascist play.
At the end of the last act, a far-right party functionary, delivers a 15-minute monologue laying out a nightmarish extremist agenda. Writes Cole, "As the actor Ole Lagerpusch launched into the incendiary speech, the audience became increasingly agitated, the theatre spokesperson Alexander Kruse said. At first, people began whistling and heckling, insulting Lagerpusch and urging him to stop. An orange was thrown at the actor, narrowly missing him. Kruse said some of the audience then got out of their seats. "Furthermore, two spectators mounted the stage, apparently with the intention of dragging [the] actor off the stage, which was prevented," he said, calling the assault "completely unacceptable"."
A critic, Martin Krumbholz, who was watching the play said that "Lagerpusch persevered despite the hostile reaction and managed to deliver his chilling last line: "The future belongs to us"."
It is a future that looks scary!
A Play So Provocative!
One has heard of people protesting against plays that offend then, getting them banned and so on, but what an actor in Berlin went through was shocking.
Deborah Cole of The Guardian, reported from Berlin, that actor Ole Lagerpusch "was shouted down, pelted with fruit and subjected to an attempted stage invasion as he delivered a final monologue in character as a far-right activist."
The violent scenes came during a performance of the Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues's work Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing, which is a provocative anti-Fascist play.
At the end of the last act, a far-right party functionary, delivers a 15-minute monologue laying out a nightmarish extremist agenda. Writes Cole, "As the actor Ole Lagerpusch launched into the incendiary speech, the audience became increasingly agitated, the theatre spokesperson Alexander Kruse said. At first, people began whistling and heckling, insulting Lagerpusch and urging him to stop. An orange was thrown at the actor, narrowly missing him. Kruse said some of the audience then got out of their seats. "Furthermore, two spectators mounted the stage, apparently with the intention of dragging [the] actor off the stage, which was prevented," he said, calling the assault "completely unacceptable"."
A critic, Martin Krumbholz, who was watching the play said that "Lagerpusch persevered despite the hostile reaction and managed to deliver his chilling last line: "The future belongs to us"."
It is a future that looks scary!
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