Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Girls Kill Nazis

Girls Kill Nazis by James Kopp

These days, I am finding myself in what appears to be my “theatre that wants to burn everything to the ground” era. So I was pleased when searching NPX for anti-fascist comedies I came across this play. It takes place in a not-too-distant speculative future in which the New American Nazi Party has come to power, and things are going just as well as you think they might. We meet a book club made up of four average women in their 20s-50s, and it turns out pretty quickly that there is much more to this book club than To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984. In fact, these four women were brought together by their shared interest in killing nazis.

When the latest new accords require installation of a federal official in every town, the upper floor of their library is selected for the offices, which does not appeal to this group of women (or their new member Bob… who has happily watched the movie of every book on their list).

I found the play emotionally satisfying as someone who is particularly angry and frustrated at this moment in time, though as the title suggests, it’s probably just a little too heavy handed to be reasonably produced in most places - and certainly not at a college. But it was a kind of fun read. And I have to say, Bob’s quirk of “reading” everything by watching it was very charming. And honestly, any story where the librarian is the hero… I’m in.

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