Noun:    A small aperture or lattice in a door, orig. the door of a prison cell, through which a person can look without being noticed from the other side; a spyhole, a peephole. Now somewhat archaic, it came to refer to church peepholes that priests could look out through and make sure that the person seeking entrance was not of ill intent (a “Judas”). Alternatively, historically a means for someone inside to betray the building by admitting a besieging army.

Word origin:    C19, after Judas Iscariot.

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Premiering at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden on 5th, 6th, 7th March, 2026.

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From Eminence Rouge Productions comes Through a Judas Window, a bold new play adapted from the novel A Mind Prone to Evil. Melding meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair, expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

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Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

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Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away. This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

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Through a Judas Window is fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

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