About the Show

My Friend Hitler

A solo performance inspired by the play by Yukio Mishima
Original translation by Hiroaki Sato
Adapted by Zehra Fazal


A PROVOCATIVE VIEW OF ADOLF HITLER AT THE DAWN OF HIS RISE TO POWER

Acclaimed DC area actor Zehra Fazal portrays contemporary Japanese novelist and playwright
Yukio Mishima's vision of Adolf Hitler in this compelling one-woman show!

Originally written by Mishima in 1969, the play explores the historical friendship between
Hitler and leader of the Sturm Ateilburg Army, Ernst Roehm and the events that lead
to "The Night of Long Knives" when hundreds of SA officers were executed
in order for Hitler to complete his ascent to power.

About the Artist

Zehra Fazal (Adolf Hitler) is a performer and artist based out of Washington, DC. DC area credits include The Kennedy Center, Adventure Theatre, The Bay Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Scena Theatre, Landless Theatre, Mystery Dinner Playhouse and the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival. In summer of 2004, Fazal earned a grant from Stanford University to study with the Takarazuka Revue, Japan's all-female musical theatre company. A graduate of Wellesley College, Fazal was awarded the Fisk Performance Prize for Acting and graduated with honors for translating and directing the English-language premiere of The Rose of Versailles from the Takarazuka repertoire.

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