Democracy
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Synopsis
West Germany 1969. Willy Brandt begins his brief but remarkable career as the first left-of-centre Chancellor for nearly forty years. Always present but rarely noticed is Gunter Guillaume, Brandt's devoted personal assistant - and no less devoted in his other role, spying on Brandt for the Stasi.
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21 April 2004
NOTE: The following review dates from September 2003 and this production's original run at the National's Cottesloe Theatre.
Michael Frayn's multi-award winning 1998 three-hander Copenhagen was set in 1941, at the outset of the Second World War, and centred around the real-life visit of a German nuclear physicist to his Danish colleague in the Nazi-occupied city of the title.
In his latest play, once again directed by long-time associate Michael Blakemore, Frayn returns to the fertile field of 20th-century European history. Back in Germany, nearly 30 years after the events recorded in Copenhagen, the country - and its citizens - has been split down the middle, divided between East and West, right and left, past and present. The capitalist West has managed to rebuild itself from the rubble into a world power, while the communist East remains veiled behind the Iron Curtain, grey and dull but reassuringly simple.
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USER: Whatsonstage.com (212.50.188.67) - 15 September 2004:
As sceptical as I was about a play centred around German politicians and political intrigue, I was completely absorbed from the beginning. Fantastic writing and acting builds into a poignant and fascinating story. In short, a fantatsic night at the theatre!...
Cast
Roger Allam (Willy Brandt)
Conleth Hill (Gunter Guillaume)
Nicholas Blane
Paul Broughton
Simon Chandler
Christopher Ettridge
Paul Gregory
Glyn Grain
Steven Pacey
David Ryall
Michael Simkins
Creative
Michael Frayn (Author)
Michael Codron (Producer)
Lee Dean (Producer)
National Theatre (Producer)
J Nederlander (Producer)
C Nederlander (Producer)
Michael Blakemore (Director)
Peter J Davison (Design)
Sue Willmington (Costume)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
Neil Alexander (Sound)
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