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Overview of Christopher Isherwood's Play Cabaret

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it, Cabaret was fresh, exceedingly controversial, raw and sexually titillating. It pushed the acceptable decency envelope on stage, and forced its audiences to rethink/ come to terms with one  of the most heinous and brutal periods of world history - Hitlers Nazi regime (Isherwood and Grey, 1997). The depiction of its glittering and often grotesque German  metropolis was based on writer, Christopher Isherwoods (1906-1986) observations/ experiences during the decadent Weimar Republic in the pre-Hitler years. Moreover, this late Britishers book, Goodbye to Berlin (1939) is  considered to be among the most significant political novels of the 20th century (Isherwood and Grey, 1997). It  was this critically acclaimed work that later inspired the world famous musical, Cabaret. Gleaming, often steamy, and tough-minded it went on to become an award-winning Bob Fosse spectacle, starring Liza  Minnelli and Joel Grey. Many different themes usher forth from the play and these along with other divergent details about its authors, origin, etc. are discussed in this essay.  Christopher Isherwoods work is said to have had firm roots in his all-too personal life experiences, and in Goodbye to Berlin  the books character uses the phrase: "I am a camera with its shutter open" to underscore the fact that he was simply a passive observer. He was merely there  as a recorder of these life events (Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, 2001). This non-involved position and the proclivity to shun personal responsibility and judgment, (later  also espoused by the Nazi leaders) were Isherwoods characters license to just relate the story as it unfolded before his eyes. When translated to the stage, Cabaret writers adopted