Taking Sides
From: Wednesday, 20th May 2009
To: Saturday, 22 August 2009
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Synopsis
The moral risks of misjudging history are looked at in this moving drama. Can any artist ever claim to be above politics? In occupied Berlin 1946, amongst the rubble of war an American Army interrogator confronts one of the 20th Century's greatest orchestral conductors - Wilhelm Furtwangler - with this fundamental, timeless question.
Our Review:
28 May 2009
In theatrical coup that should be relished, Ronald Harwood can boast not one but two plays transferred to the same West End stage. Taking Sides (in a sense the parent as well as companion piece to Collaboration with which it was revived in a Chichester last year), premiered there in 1995.
Again taking a musical artist surviving a Fascist regime, in this instance Wilhelm Furtwängler, renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic during the Third Reich, Harwood addresses the uncomfortable responsibilities of artistic integrity when weighed against personal safety. Unlike Collaboration, which explores the creative process itself, Taking Sides asks: if art can be powerful propaganda can it, conversely, make an eloquent protest and, if so, what sort of man could take that stand ?
Set in the devastated Berlin of 1946, Simon Higlett’s blanched design litters a bomb-fractured room w...
Cast
Michael Pennington (Wilhelm Furtwanglar)
Martin Hutson (David Wills)
Melanie Jessop (Tamara Sachs)
Pip Donaghy (Helmuth Rode)
Sophie Roberts (Emmi Straube)
David Horovitch (Major Arnold)
Creative
Ronald Harwood (Author)
DeLonghi (Corporate Sponsor)
Chichester Festival (Producer)
Nica Burns (Nimax Theatres) (Producer)
Max Weitzenhoffer (for Nimax Theatres) (Producer)
Duncan Weldon (Producer)
Philip Franks (Director)
Simon Higlett (Design)
Mark Jonathan (Lighting)
Matthew Scott (soundtrack) (Music)
John Leonard (Sound)
Bill Butler (Costume)
Gerry Bunzl (assistant) (Design)
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