Memory
From: Tuesday, 30th September 2008
To: Sunday, 2 November 2008
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Synopsis
East Berlin, 1990. The wall has just been pulled down. A man arrives at the flat of his grandmother with awkward questions about the past. Meanwhile, a generation later, in Bethlehem the Israeli security barrier is going up.
Our Review:
2 October 2008
There was promise of this being a holocaust play with a difference. The actors assemble to rehearse their roles in a white circle. The director at the piano plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The scene clicks into Berlin after the Wall has come down where 78 year-old Eva entertains her grandson. He wants to know what happened fifty-odd years ago.
Jonathan Lichtenstein’s Memory also sets up a parallel story of a soldier in Bethlehem constructing the new West Bank wall, or barrier, and displacing an old Palestinian. This strand is soon forgotten, the metaphor unexplored in the drama, as we concentrate on Eva’s story in trading off her affections between the Jewish shoe-shop entrepreneur she marries and the Gentile Nazi who spoils everything after Kristtalnacht.
The play is presented in translucent silhouette and revved-up urgency by director Terry Hands and his Clwyd Theatr Cymru company, which arrives in the Pleasance after a date in...
Creative
Jonathan Lichtenstein (Author)
Clwyd Theatr Cymru (in association with Karl Sydow) (Producer)
Terry Hands (Director)
Martyn Bainbridge (Design)
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