Mephisto [A Rhapsody]

Friday 25th October 2019

Leo Bill in Mephisto [A Rhapsody]. Photo: Cameron Slater
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Text of the day: “You’ve forgotten what fascism is all about. Systemic destruction. The death spiral. The thrill of destroying everything fragile, elegant, fine and tender. And you just stand there, watching.” (Aymeric in Samuel Gallet’s Mephisto [A Rhapsody])

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