Foot imagined Mussolini arrested and brought to London to stand trial for war crimes. An open and shut case? But against who? Too controversial to be published under his own name in the wartime Britain of
1943... appearing as a pamphlet under the pseudonym "Cassius", The Trial of
Mussolini unleashed a devastating attack on the policy of appeasement that had
the establishment reeling as it proved a best seller with the general public.
Foot blasted the conduct of the famous and powerful including several British
Government ministers, newspaper proprietors, journalists and historians in
their adulation of Italy's dictator and Adolf Hitler's mentor.
Still enormously relevant with its focus on trust and political morality, The Trial ofMussolini was written by Foot when he was a Fleet Street journalist. In Foot's
words the objective was aimed at "underlying afresh the international character of the war and how we must continue to resist the reappearance of fascism".
This first ever staged reading has been adapted and will be directed by award winning documentary director and playwright Alfio Bernabei, author of Dangerous
Characters for Channel 4 and of a recent article in History Today, The London Plot to Kill Mussolini.
The event will take place on Sunday 18th November at 7.30pm and is part of The Festival of International Theatre and Arts at Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale
Road, London NW1 Tel. 020 7387 6617 Tube: Camden Town.
For further information call Theatro Technis on 0207 387 6617 or email info@theatrotechnis.com
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