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Berlin
Author(s): Joanna Murray-Smith
A romantic thriller set against the overpowering shadow of history. Two twenty-somethings meet in Berlin and fall into a passionate connection over a single night. Tom, an Australian abroad meets Charlotte, a German bartender, in a trendy underground Berlin bar and sparks fly. She invites him to stay the night. Ideas are exchanged, intimate secrets revealed, and desire is ignited. In the cold light of day, Tom reveals his true intentions, posing an ethical dilemma that threatens to unravel their strong connection. The ghosts of the Second World War are upon them, and their feelings in the present have to confront the ghosts of the past. Berlin asks the question: How do we live in the present with a past we can never escape?
Format: Full-length play
Cast Size: 1M/1F
Running Time: 80 minutes
Notes:
The play was a finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2022.
Visit the playwright’s website: www.joannamurray-smith.com
An education pack is available from the Melbourne Theatre Company: www.mtc.com.au
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville, NSW, Australia, October 9–19 2024.
Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville, NSW, Australia, October 9–19 2024.
Nationality of Author: Australian
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Reactions to the Holocaust
HTC Insights
Views, reference and research of interest.
Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.