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Describe the Night, Hampstead Theatre
American playwright Rajiv Joseph’s latest certainly doesn’t lack for ambition, spanning 90 years, three countries, and mixing history and fiction in its form to make a point about, well, mixing history and fiction. Storytelling through to the pertinent “fake news” … Continue reading
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Tagged ben caplan, berlin wall, broadwayworld, david birrell, describe the night, drama, east germany, fake news, hampstead theatre, isaac babel, kgb, lisa spirling, london, moscow, nikolai yezhov, plane crash, play, poland, propaganda, putin, rajiv joseph, rebecca o'mara, review, russia, secret police, smolensk, soviet, spy, stalin, story, theatre
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Thriller asks big questions
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, David Edgar’s 1990s Iron Curtain Trilogy is staged together for the first time, offering wry, nuanced dramatisation of political and social upheaval. Middle play Pentecost addresses post-Soviet reconstruction and the complexity … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged america, art, art history, asylum, berlin wall, catholic, church, cockpit, cold war, david edgar, drama, eastern europe, fresco, giotto, ham and high, history, hostage, immigrant, immigration, iron curtain, london, north london, orthodox, pentecost, play, refugee, religion, renaissance, review, soviet, theatre, trilogy, western
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Listed: Wall Flowers – The Best of Berlin
It divided a city, but the Wall produced great stories, dramas and films. We pick our favourites. Read the full post on theartsdesk
Posted in Art, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged america, anniversary, berlin, berlin wall, book, cold war, communism, communist, david bowie, David Hare, drama, east, fiction, film, germany, good bye lenin, heroes, ian mcewan, iron curtain, israel, john le carre, ken loach, mark ravenhill, music, palestine, play, royal court, russia, song, spy, stasiland, story, the lives of others, theatre, west
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