21. Political and Social Success
Lessons of the 'Troupe 1931' Theater Ensemble
The original author of these essays was Ingeborg Franke von Wangenheim.
To assess “The Mousetrap” and its success in political terms, one must refer back to our agreed-upon goals, our reasons for mounting the show in the first place: To revolutionize the working middle-class, those of us who were increasingly being “proletarianized” — being made poorer and more desperate, that is — by economic conditions, by the rising prices and cheapening of all our labor, from the bottom of society almost to the top.
