Details

Horvarth was a German-speaking Austro-Hungarian whose plays were banned during the Third Reich and rediscovered in the mid-sixties; and in this particular piece dating from 1930 he was writing a prophetic bourgeois tragic-comedy. Marianne, the heroine, is the daughter of a respectable toy-shop owner. She jettisons her fianc Part of The Travelex £10 Season

Cast/Performers

Frances Barber (Valerie), Karl Johnson, Darrell D'Silva (Oskar), David Ross, Helen Anderson-Lee, Jane Bertish, Paul Birchard, Paul Chequer, Judith Coke, JOe Duttine, Keiran Flynn, Gregory Fox-Murphy, Penelope McGhie, Carol Macready, Doreen Mantle, Tom Marshall, Gary Oliver, Amanda Perry-Smith, Liza Sadovy, Nicholas Sidi, Emma Stansfield, Nicola Walker

Creatives/Company

Author: Odon von Horvath
Producer: National Theatre
Adapted by: David Harrower
Corporate Sponsor: Travelex
Director: Richard Jones
Design: Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting: Mark Henderosn