As with Glazer’s film, the play is really about the chilling ease with which normality sits alongside horror – Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ – how everyday, small acts are part of the larger monstrosity. Is a young woman who relays an order for poisonous gas down a telephone line as culpable in genocide as the officer who rounds up inmates and pushes them into the gas chamber?
Here There Are Blueberries forces us to ask: as intolerance, antisemitism and xenophobia feel, once again, increasingly normalised, what too, are we capable of?
By Rebecca Taylor
Photos by Mark Senior
Here There Are Blueberries runs until Saturday 7 March. 7.30pm, 3pm (Thu & Sat only). From £10. Theatre Royal Stratford East, E15 1BN. stratfordeast.com
