Trailer video for 'Singing Into The Dark, 1933' -written and performed by Bremner Fletcher Duthie

In the ruins of a theatre, after the performers have been arrested and dragged away by the authorities, one defiant actor attempts to perform the entire show.
Singing into The Dark, 1933 takes place in an imagined version of Berlin’s Eldorado Club just after the rise of Hitler. In 1933, in Germany, immediately after they took power, the Nazis closed the theatres of Germany and attacked cultural workers. They hoped to destroy cultural ideas they deemed inappropriate and silence the artistic voices that might resist them.
The first concentration camps, or ‘re-education camps’, were set up for cultural workers, and became brutal spaces of beatings and murders. When Herman Goering ordered the closing of theatres, the Eldorado Club (a home for alternative performance, and a welcoming space for the LGBTQ community) was raided, and the performers dragged to the camps. The Club was taken over by the Nazi Party and used as its local headquarters.
Think this is only history?? Imagine a similar situation today: -- Imagine you have a ticket in your pocket to be in the audience at the taping of your favorite series. You love this show: it's crazy, rude, political, risky. It makes fun of authority and takes all the chances. Its John Oliver meets George Carlin meets RuPaul meets Dancing With The Stars. But when you arrive, the doors are broken down, the studio in ruins, and the cast and crew missing. They finally crossed the line: insulted a powerful politician, spoke too much truth, and the Security Forces have taken them. Maybe they’re in prison, maybe even dead. But in front of you, staring at the empty stage, one camera remains upright, blinking green, live, broadcasting to the world. What do you choose to do?
Do you leave, run, and stay silent? Or go on camera, bear witness, speak the truth and risk your life?'
Singing into The Dark, 1933 tells that story.
Singing into The Dark, 1933 opens on the stage of the ravaged theatre. An actor tumbles into a space ripped apart by violence. His colleagues have been beaten and arrested by the authorities. Only their shattered props and costumes remain. He knows that to escape the same fate, the only sane choice is to be silent, and vanish into the night. But an audience has slipped through the broken doors of the theatre. Risking his life, he decides to use all his talents to defiantly recreate the acts of the missing company. In these tributes, he shows us that celebration and humor are also acts of resistance. Singing into The Dark, 1933 demonstrates how important it is to fight oppression with both fury and laughter, rage and delight.
Written and performed by Bremner Fletcher
with original direction by Dave Dawson
new direction by Joseph Furnari
costumes by Veronica Russel
dramaturgy by Caroline Russell-King and Rob Burns
original choreography by Julie Tomaino and Tracy Darin
​song rights for Singing Into The Dark, 1933 secured by Della Music Publishing