Weill and Lenya

Play :: show/work:S01882602659, production/tour:T1783736824

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18 Feb 00 to 19 Mar 00

Weill and Lenya Play :: listing:L0515151053, production:T1783736824, show:S01882602659, venue: V304

Warehouse Theatre Outer London Greater London

Details

Kurt Weill, son of a German cantor, and Lotte Lenya, the performer, slum child from Vienna, meet, marry, divorce and marry again against the background of the rise of Hitler, the collaboration with Brecht, the flight from Germany in 1933, and the reinvention of Weill's music in America in the 1940's.
Performers David McAlister, Judith Paris. Author Judith Paris. Author Ken Russell. Director Ken Russell. Director Sam Kenyon (music). Design James Merifield. Lighting Paul Bryan.