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Taking Sides/Collaboration
- By:
- Ronald Harwood
- Management:
- Chichester Festival Theatre
- Cast:
- Michael Pennington, Richard Strauss, David Horovitch
- Director:
- Philip Franks
- Design:
- Simon Higlett
- Sound:
- John Leonard
- Lighting:
- Mark Jonathan
- Musical direction:
- Matthew Scott
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Two companion plays by Ronald Harwood about icons of culture that the Nazis could ill afford to lose identify the work of Germany's best contemporary composer, Richard Strauss, with Stefan Zweig, his Jewish librettist in Collaboration, and the initial de-Nazification enquiry of arguably their best conductor, Wilhelm Furtwangler, in Taking Sides. Both musicians were totally immersed in their art and had no time for politics, believing - in a very naive way - that their music would transcend tyranny...
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