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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Berlin
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'Tom meets Charlotte in a bar. Tom’s a foreigner on his first trip to Berlin. Charlotte’s a beguiling bartender. They’re both young, smart and charismatic – and in the early hours, they end up back at Charlotte’s Prenzlauerberg apartment. Over the course of the night, desire and longing dance hand in hand with devastating secrets. Are they just two young people falling in love, or are they contemporary victims of history’s undiluted reach?'

Source: Melbourne Theatre Company.

Production Details

  • Set to be produced by Melbourne Theatre Company at the Sumner, Southbank Theatre, 25 April - 6 June 2020.

    Director: Iain Sinclair.

    Cast includes Grace Cummings.

    Production cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Production rescheduled for the Sumner, Southbank Theatre, from 17 April 2021.

    Director: Iain Sinclair.

    Set & Costume Designer: Christina Smith.

    Lighting Designer: Niklas Pajanti.

    Composer & Sound Designer: Kelly Ryall.

    Cast: Grace Cummings and Michael Wahr.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2020
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 62p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 16th April 2014.
      ISBN: 9781760627331
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Works about this Work

The Snares of History : Joanna Murray-Smith's New Play Andrew Fuhrmann , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 60)
— Review of Berlin Joanna Murray-Smith , 2020 single work drama

'Berlin, by Joanna Murray-Smith, is an intense, very wordy, imperfectly plotted, but nonetheless stylish play. ‘Stylish’ is a strange word to describe a play about young love sabotaged by tragic secrets and the legacy of the Holocaust. Shouldn’t it also be ‘heart-breaking’, ‘harrowing’, or at least ‘poignant’? Perhaps, but ‘stylish’ is the right word for a play – a thriller, in fact – that is also a swiftly argued essay on the difficulties faced by sensitive and ethical individuals who want to free themselves from the snares of history to make a new future.' (Introduction)
The Snares of History : Joanna Murray-Smith's New Play Andrew Fuhrmann , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 60)
— Review of Berlin Joanna Murray-Smith , 2020 single work drama

'Berlin, by Joanna Murray-Smith, is an intense, very wordy, imperfectly plotted, but nonetheless stylish play. ‘Stylish’ is a strange word to describe a play about young love sabotaged by tragic secrets and the legacy of the Holocaust. Shouldn’t it also be ‘heart-breaking’, ‘harrowing’, or at least ‘poignant’? Perhaps, but ‘stylish’ is the right word for a play – a thriller, in fact – that is also a swiftly argued essay on the difficulties faced by sensitive and ethical individuals who want to free themselves from the snares of history to make a new future.' (Introduction)
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