Private Life of the Master Race

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

The Private Life of the Master Race is one of Bertolt Brecht’s most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works. The play consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including “The Physicist”, “Judicial Process”, and “The Jewish Wife”.

Cast

• : Elsie Feldman
• Young Man: Mike Gnazzo
• : Charmaine Gordon
• : Bud Gordon
• : Marie Himes
• : Roberta Koff
• : Robert Minichiello
• : Bill Peterkin
• : Walter Rae
• : Doug Sandberg
• : Spence Beatrice Berg
• : Arnold Sorkin
• : Len Stanger
• : Arthur Turetzky
• : Dorothy Wilens
• : Ellen Wiseman
• : Sandy Wolf
• : Leontine Zimiles
• Off-stage voice: Peter Donnelly

Production Staff / Crew

• Director: Bruce Baldwin
• Producer: Len Stanger
• Set Designer: Bruce Baldwin
• Lighting Designer: Mike Gnazzo
• Stage Manager: Judy Baldwin
• Technical Director: Bruce Baldwin
• Sound Designer: Evan Wolf