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Author(s): Ronald Harwood
Set in Germany in the early 1930s, the play centers on the artistic partnership between German composer Richard Strauss and Austrian writer Stefan Zweig on the opera Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman). As the Nazis rise to power, they demand Strauss stop working with Zweig because he is Jewish. The play highlights the conflict between artistic aspiration and political ideology. It deals with the friendship between the two men and the pressure of the Nazi regime upon them.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 2W 4M
Notes:
The play is often performed as a companion piece to Ron Harwood’s play Taking Sides.
Sir Ronald Harwood is an Academy Award winning playwright and screenwriter. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he moved to London in 1951 and among many other accolades was awarded a CBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1999.
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Premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, U.K., in July 2008.
Premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, U.K., in July 2008.
Nationality of Author: South African
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | European Jewry Before the Holocaust
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