It’s January 1990, in a provincial East German theatre. This is a time between things, between the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, a time when no one knows the rules. As the theatre practitioners try out material for their new show, old wars, suspicions and accusations rise to the surface… Time Wednesday 12 August 2015, 2pm – 3.30pm Venue 50 George Square, Edinburgh Image This rehearsed reading of Peter Arnott’s new play is an experiment about theatre. About theatre as something we make together, and the reasons why a society does that. It’s also about the social experiment that took place in East Germany - the attempt to make a new kind of country and what became of it. How did theatre practitioners feel about living in a society made of lies, a society built on fear, a society under total surveillance? And what do we think about the past now, when that past was all about the promise of the future? For one afternoon only, Wednesday 12 August 2015, 2pm - 3.30pm in 50 George Square, Edinburgh. Tickets for the event are free and can be booked through the Edinburgh Fringe website: www.edfringe.com Photo credit - Thierry Noir, 1986. Noir [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noir] at the German language Wikipedia [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/] This article was published on 2024-08-13
