Worse yet, and sadly, totalitarian governments, anti-Semitism, racism and genocide are still ugly realities. In 1990, after extensive research on the Nazi era, Perpetrators began to take shape. Rather than depicting victims, I decided to portray the people who made Hitler possible. I began to focus mainly on a representative group of men who helped Hitler to power and implemented his policies. They were mainly men of position and education.
Perpetrators has two functions.
It is my hope to provoke the audience to think critically about the present by remembering a past when a single tyrant was joined by a cadre of men in perpetrating evil across the world.