Taking Sides

Play with 2 acts, 3 scenes
written by RONALD HARWOOD


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Music:
All music were taken from recordings conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler:

Beethoven 5. Symphonie C-Moll, op 67
Beethoven 8. Symphonie F-Dur, op 93
Bruckner 7. Symphonie E-Dur
Beethoven 9. Symphonie D-Moll, op 125



Time and place:
1946, Major Arnold's office in Steglitz, in the American sector of Berlin

1. scene: In the morning in February
2. scene: At night in April
3. scene: In the morning in July



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Premiere: 25.1995, Chichester Festival
Furtwängler: Daniel Massay
Major Arnold: Michael Pennington
Director: Harold Pinter

Premiere on Broadway:
 17.10.1996, Brooks Atkinson Theatre







So far the play has appeared
on more than 20 German-language
stages, in cities world-wide, as
New York, Los Angeles, London,
Paris, Tel Aviv, etc., as well as
towns, among others:

German first performance:
27.3.1997, Hessian National Theatre, Wiesbaden



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Copyright of the pictures above:
Brinkhoff/Mögenburg, Hafenstr. 59, D-21502 Geesthacht
Performance rights:
Hartmann & Stauffacher Verlag für Bühne, Funk und Fernsehen, Köln
The Play