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HISTORICAL FACTS: Play about fascism causes violent scenes at german theatre | History Defined

A man in the foreground with a woman behind him holding a gun to his head
Ole Lagerpusch in a scene from the play by Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues. Photograph: Armin Smailovic

An actor at a theatre in Germany was at the weekend shouted down, pelted with fruit and subjected to an attempted stage invasion as he delivered a final monologue in character as a far-right activist.

The violent scenes came on Saturday during the German premiere of the Portuguese playwright Tiago Rodrigues’s work Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing Fascists in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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