A Berlin audience has fake faeces thrown at them – and is moved to tears. So am I

A Berlin audience has fake faeces thrown at them – and is moved to tears. So am I

We’re surrounded by news images of death and violence. Why do Florentina Holzinger’s visceral stage productions still have such impact? What would you do if the world was to end tomorrow? The premise itself may be both timeless and timely at this moment when authoritarianism is on the rise globally. But that’s not really what causes the nail-biting excitement at the doorstep of Volksbühne theatre in Berlin. On a chilly June evening, a predominan…