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'What is it about his play that has made it a 21st-century equivalent of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, triggering mini-riots wherever it is shown? One answer may be that Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists is essentially two plays in one, each of which annuls the answers offered by the other: an anti-fascist play that asks difficult questions of both liberal and militant anti-fascists.
For the first two hours, Rodrigues’s play is a reflection on what the philosopher Karl Popper called the “paradox of tolerance”: to preserve an open and tolerant society, must we be intolerant towards those who advocate intolerance? Or does our society cease to be a tolerant one when we do so?'
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."