Leaving

Play :: show/work:S99267867, production/tour:T0390588480

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19 Sep 08 to 13 Dec 08

Leaving Play :: listing:L906544066, production:T0390588480, show:S99267867, venue: V321

Orange Tree Theatre Outer London Greater London

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Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his 'long-time companion' and his extended family have to leave the villa which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to face an uncertain future, the Chancellor himself considers his legacy amidst visits from journalists, an infatuated student, deputy minister Klein and the attentions of his servant Oswald and Knobloch, the gardener. The play has echoes of both King Lear and The Cherry Orchard, and addresses the themes of change, dispossession and the passage of power from one generation to the next amidst the chaos of leaving.
Performers Philip Anthony, David Antrobus, Robert Austin, Carolyn Backhouse, Geoffrey Beevers, Fay Castelow, Esther Ruth Elliot, Stuart Fox, James Greene, Christopher Naylor, Paul O'Mahony, Rebecca Pownall, Mike Sengelow, Auriol Smith, Paula Stockbridge. Author Vaclav Havel. Producer Orange Tree. Translation Paul Wilson. Director Sam Walters.