If you only see one show on the Fringe, see Adolph - BBC Radio
Reaffirms need for political theater The Scotsman
Superb, truly powerful

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Pip Utton, one of the UK’s most acclaimed solo artist has the American premiere of three dramatic lectures receiving critical acclaim and great response from audiences around the World.

Set in Hitler's underground bunker in 1945 as the party faithful are gathered to hear a final address that provides revealing insights into the mesmerizing impact of his ideological justifications and ideas. The potent delivery by an utterly compelling idealist reveal both the logic of a madman and the manipulating magic of speech. The audience experiences how intolerance can be exploited and used to seduce. And then, in a startling transition to the present moment, Pip Utton's breathtaking coup de theatre leaves the audience stunned.

Reviews
"Utton's superb performance makes the Führer tangible yet terrifying. This is an extremely clever warning. Truly powerful theatre." - The Herald
"The sting is in the tail. Hitler is alive in nineties Britain... an ever present malignancy... Unashamedly theatre with a message, with a vengeance... A tour de force." - The Stage
"One of the most successful solo shows of the last decade..... In humanising a monster Pip Utton has created a piece of mind-bending theatre." - EdinburghGuide.com 2007
“It is not often that an actor manages so brilliantly to blur the boundaries between staged performance and reality. Pip Utton can successfully do so.... Utton's Adolf should travel ... into every High School and be used as an important text in serious political, historical and social debates." - The British Theatre Guide 2007
"A must see show." - One4review.com 2007
"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 12/08/98
"If you only see one show on the Fringe, see Adolf" - BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope 17/08/98
"Utton breathes life into Hitler, realising the threat of fascism anew. This is atmospheric, emotional stuff... and a cautionary tale to boot. It caresses its way into your confidence and then chokes you on your own laughter." - The List 19/08/99


Pip Utton, Writer
I was never an angry young man, I was a young Conservative. In the flower powered era of the 60’s my only rebellions were to smoke a pipe and like opera! But now I’m an angry middle-aged man. Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not just a grumpy old git bemoaning how out of place I’ve become in today’s world; a world that will never ever be as polite, calm and respectful as it was in those golden days not so long ago. I know those golden days never existed. And I’m angry that today’s world seems to have learnt so little from the mistakes of yesterday’s world. Not only have we not learned from them we seem intent on repeating them! I think it was Tony Benn who said “All we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.”

The rise of Adolf Hitler and his crusade of evil provides us with the clearest example of how people’s prejudices and fears can be exploited; it illustrates how intolerances can be exploited and manipulated to devastating effect.

Writing and performing Adolf was and is my small very inadequate way of saying something, of setting out a warning to beware and to suspect the motives of those massaging our intolerances.

The play is not an easy ride for the audience. It was never intended to be.