Mein Kampf

It was 1924 when a young Adolf Hitler wrote the infamous "Mein Kampf" in his cell at Landsberg prison. However, it was only in 2016 that Germany lifted the ban on disseminating the essay, believing that only knowledge could prevent the repetition of the catastrophe. More than 100 years after the anniversary of the work's writing, Stefano Massini, the only Italian winner of a Tony Award, presents a brilliant and intense reflection on the power and consequences of the words used by the dictator.

For years, Massini has studied the manifesto-book, the Führer's speeches, and the materials from "Conversations with Hitler at the Table" collected by Picker, Heim, and Bormann, and today he brings to the stage a hard but necessary show that highlights the shocking magnitude of "Mein Kampf". Massini proposes an investigation into the words chosen by the dictator to outline the program of his party, the power they exerted over people, and how they changed the course of history. "Mein Kampf" is the chilling Word of the most destructive twentieth century, disguised within the paranoid autobiography of an obsessed fanatic fixated on the primacy of race, the apotheosis of the leader, the longing for redemption, and the fever of propaganda. Massini is unfiltered and uses the same emphatic style as the original work because understanding the mechanism is the only antidote to its resurgence.