A THIRD RAIL drag show on the slippery ubiquity of fascism.
With her satellite dish tilted towards the void and her mascara bleeding from the humidity, “THE 4TH REICH” is Trish’s latest, desperate broadcast—
a feverish dissection of modern fascism’s vapid face.
From pubic lice to the Epstein saga, from gooning to Germany’s fake-ass denazification, from karaoke bar to soapbox, Trish dices the highbrow and the rock-bottom lowbrow into a fever chart for our political moment: where deep states corrode into our entombed traumas, manifest as ripples on the atmospheric surface of our own disintegrating selves.
Part camp exorcism of elite fuckery, part breaking-news breakdown – bring an umbrella, because it’s getting crazy out there.
Dates
| 21st May 2026 | Queen Qotti |
| 8th May 2026: 8:00PM | Casino for Social Medicine, Berlin |
| 6th February 2026 | Casino for Social Medicine, Berlin |
| 3rd January 2026 | PAF, St Erme, France |
| 4 October 2024 | Gieza’s Pokehouse, Tipsy Bear, Berlin |
| 28-29 March 2024 | König Theater, Delphi Theater, Berlin |
| 21-22 January 2024 | König, Tipsy Bear Berlin |
About Trish
“Is it just me, or is it a little moist down south?”
A fever-dream hybrid of Network’s Howard Beale and the suburban delirium of Kath & Kim, Trish is an 80s Sydney weatherwoman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
This bleached-blonde Cassandra clawed her way to Channel 6’s morning forecast. All she wants? One. Flawless. Broadcast. But a great stinking hole has opened up in the ozone layer – a rupture in the fragile membrane holding reality in place. Can she nail one forcast without her monsoon of desire and rage raining all over her dreams?
Conceived as Berlin’s art scene ices over into complicit silence in the face of rearmament and genocide, Trish—”your lovable, fuckable, yet fundamentally attainable weathergirl”—is the unhinged tornado they deserve. Part camp spectacle, part soap box tirade: her manicured hands point to stormfronts while tracing the contours of institutional complicity.
Further reading on Trish: A word that starts with “G” and ends with “enocide”
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Fourth Reich would not be possible without podcasts like Ghost Stories For The End Of The World, and in particular, but not limited to, the episode Acid Spooks 1: MK Ultra and the Void. The same love goes for Radio War Nerd .
In terms of books, I rely on Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley for scenes that map the arc of surveillance from counterinsurgency in Vietnam to the Internet.
The show features “Zombie” by the Cranberries, “Total Control” by the Motels and “Smooth Operator” by Sade, but with fucked up lyrics, and of course “Crazy” by Seal. From Freesound I used the song Weather Forecast Type Beat by YellowTree (License: Attribution 4.0). There are also snippets of the movies Blade Runner, Twin Peaks, and the T.S. Eliot poem “The Hollow Men”, read by Jeremy Irons.
A special thanks to Mad Kate for their dramaturgical insight.
Lastly, thanks to PAF for hosting the writing process over the Winter 25/26–get back on your feet soon dear, we need you!