HITLER - THE STRUGGLING ARTIST © 2006

Notes:

• Photo - Actor Bill Breuer portraying Adolf Hitler.
• 'This role filled out a spectrum for me. I have played a German Officer who is rescuing a live baby from a pile of dead bodies in one show, Werhner Von Braun the rocket scientist in another, and now Hitler himself!'
• 'As a method actor I had to get into his mind at that time, but forgetting what his future was to be - yet allowing the personality faults to come through.'
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Play Notes: The play presents an 'unknown' sidewalk artist in Vienna, selling his paintings and drawings. While he is painting he talks to the audience of art and his personal struggle. He briefly addresses the occasional passerby and even ridicules the browser who does not appreciate his work. Reproductions of some of Hitler's artwork have been made for this show. This brief one-act play was written in Canada. It illustrates the potential power of the artist... whether the artform be literature, poetry, theatre, painting or music. The artist can affect the mind or heart. The artist can potentially change a thought, a belief and even the destiny of a nation. The story also serves as a warning that potential danger can come from areas and people we might otherwise overlook. Heinlein has said, 'A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.' This is a history lesson.