Take Art and Pip Utton bring Hitler to Somerset

20 August 2012

On Thursday 13 September international theatre star and Edinburgh Fringe legend Pip Utton brings his 5-star, globe trotting, one man show Adolf to the Tacchi Morris in Taunton, launching Take Art's fundraising season of events in a dramatic and controversial style.

Adolf, written and starring Pip Utton, directed by Guy Masterson, is political theatre with an international reputation, packing out audiences all over the world, receiving rave reviews and rarely leaving an empty seat in the house. With a theme and subject that is powerful, challenging and divisive, illustrative and educational, Adolf is utterly provocative and totally necessary. Everyone should experience it...

“Terrifying, searing, transfixing... It is quite impossible to be anything other than totally absorbed by Utton’s performance. Adolf reaffirms the need and worth of political theatre.”  
***** The Scotsman

The show is set in the Führer’s bunker, Berlin 1945, the air is thick with betrayal as Hitler awaits the inevitable collapse of Berlin. Pip Utton, looking uncomfortably like the Fuhrer, stands before a huge Nazi banner addressing his party faithful. He furnishes his audience with an acute anatomy of fascism; its ideological justifications; its poisoned utopias. They are in the presence of an utterly compelling idealist, and are helplessly drawn in to his warped logic.

The 20th Century’s most notorious tyrant is daringly and divisively brought to the stage in one of the most successful and powerful solo works ever presented, with a sting so powerful, it pushes the audience to question their own prejudices and intolerance.

Pip Utton has kindly offered this rare, one-night-only showing of Adolf in support of Take Art’s Don’t Take Art Away season of fundraising events that will be taking place across Somerset throughout the Autumn.

The campaign comes in the wake of the devastating 2011 local authority arts cuts and aims to raise enough money to ensure the survival, quality and diversity of Take Art’s work in Somerset, including the beloved rural touring scheme, now in its 25th year!

So help us raise £10,000 to keep art in Somerset and take a seat in the audience on 13th September to witness this once in a life time theatre opportunity.

The show starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £10 for adults, £8 concessions and £6 for students.

Call The Tacchi Morris Box Office on 01823 414141 or book online at www.tacchi-morris.com