Archive listings for In Quest of Conscience

Work type: Play

T0674279754 (FINBOROUGH11) English Premiere. Peformance Length: approx. 80mins with no interval.Producer Myriad Productions (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre). Director Rachel Heyburn.
12 Jun 11 to 27 Jun 11	Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L448100168

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A True Story "Survival, always survival. I had to limit my own actions to what I, in my conscience, could answer for." Franz Stangl. SS-Obersturmfuhrer Franz Stangl was the Superintendent of the Nazi’s T-4 Euthanasia Programme overseeing the extermination of mentally and physically disabled people, and subsequently Commandant of both Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps. Tracked down long after the war by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in Brazil, he was extradited to West Germany and tried for the deaths of approximately 900,000 people. During his imprisonment, he was interviewed by author Gitta Sereny, well known for her studies of Mary Bell and Albert Speer. Based on her subsequent book, In Quest Of Conscience is a startling dramatization of those interviews. The play explores Stangl the child, the husband, the father and leader, attempting to understand how the young boy who started life wanting to be a fabric weaver in his hometown in Austria became responsible for the most efficient death camp of the Holocaust. In Quest Of Conscience is a devastating journey into the dark heart of evil as the interview process gradually brings Stangl face to face with the consequences of his actions...

Author Gitta Sereny. Adapted by Robert David MacDonald.