Olga's Room
From: Wednesday, 9th January 2013
To: Saturday, 26 January 2013
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Synopsis
Based on the real life imprisonment of 1930s freedom fighter Olga Benario, this is a searing portrait of human survival in the face of oppression and mistreatment. As Olga's story unfolds, the four characters in her ?room' attempt to maintain their crumbling sense of self as they are forced to explore the darker side of the human spirit.
Our Review:
14 January 2013
Olga Benario was a German-Jewish communist. Imprisoned in Brazil and Germany in the 1930s, her story is one of defiance and affliction. German playwright Dea Loher concentrates Benario’s plight on her time in prison, focusing on her crumbling resolve and sense of self. First performed in 1992, Speaking in Tongues have brought the bristling Olga’s Room to the Arcola for its UK premiere.
The play opens with Benario, (played by Bethan Clark) desperately etching her journey and “album of memories” onto the ground of her cell with a piece of chalk. Switching to a cell in Brazil, her seventeen year old cellmate Genny (Sheena May), hankers after her story with child-like eagerness. A worn, pregnant Olga indulges her with the reality of life on the run with Luis Prestes, a Brazilian communist and father of her child. Benario goes on to be subjected to an interrogation by a sinister, waistcoat clad Filinto Muller (Pete Collis), an officer who appears ...
Creative
Dea Loher (Author)
Speaking in Tongues (Company)
Samuel Miller (Director)
Matt Sykes-Hooban (Design)
James Smith (Lighting)
Edward Lewis (Sound)
Ewen Moore (songs) (Music)
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