Fire and the Fuhrer – a review of ‘A Bright Room Called Day”

'Burgh Vivant: Its fear and misery in the Third Reich when a group of friends witness the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler in Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day.”

When contentious factions of a political party split, evil rises (we’re not talking about Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the ascension of Donald Trump, but we could be). In the 1930s, as social democrats and communists in Germany refuse to work together, Adolf Hitler climbs to the top of the dog pile. For actress Agnes Eggling (Sarah Pidgeon) and her contemporaries the escalation of his power seems swift over a two year period.