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A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner

Dates 19-23 May 2009 Tickets: tbc
Venue: The White Bear, 138 Kennington Park Road, SE11 4DJ
Bookings: 020 7793 9193 www.ticketweb.co.uk

CAST

Zillah Katz - Sukhraj Dhillon
Agnes Eggling - Louise Amos
Vealtninc Husz - Paul Galbraith
Gregor Bazwald - Daniel Davis
Paulinka Erdnuss - Natalie Goodwin-Hollywood
Annabell Gotchling - Annabel Entress
Die Alte - Lindy Henny
Rosa Malek - Natalie Britton
Emil Traum - Quan Pemberton
Gottfried Swetts - Pete Picton

CREW

Directed by - Mike Williams and Sukhraj Dhillon
Produced by - Rachel Goldsmith
Assistant Producer - Julie Ford
Stage Manager - Anna Sayre
Technical - Alistair Macdonald

PRODUCTION NOTES

New Yorker Zillah flees Reagan's America to take up refuge in Berlin, Germany in the apartment of long-dead leftist Agnes. During the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi Party Agnes' flat became a safe haven for her artistic, left leaning and nonconformist friends.

Huddled around her kitchen table they discuss the ups and downs of Germany's failing democracy and the rise of the authoritarian Adolf Hitler. But they, like many concerned about the Nazis, fail to speak out against Hitler's ascent to power. They play moves between eras with Zillah's outpourings of moral outrage.

Kushner's play, inspired by what he saw as the excesses and wrongs of Regan's America, still rings true today in a world where wars are begun in the name of democracy and freedom, whilst government proposes to detain 'terrorists' for indefinite periods and where society is increasingly fractured between 'us' and 'them'.


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