Quote: Thomas Floyd on Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

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The revival even goes as far as to paint the Emcee as a merchant of death, happy to evolve, assimilate and perpetrate fascism in the name of his own survival. Inhabited by Redmayne with the slippery physicality of a living marionette, this Emcee has no qualms about functioning as a Nazi-enabling puppet.

 “Individuality was stripped away as fascism rose and people had to become more homogenized,” Redmayne says of the Weimar Republic’s decline. “So the idea, therefore, of our Emcee as being puppeteer, conductor, perpetrator — rather than the version of the Emcee as a victim — was important.” 

Thomas Floyd KKC Cabaret