Details

Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's favourite architect and later promoted to Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, and the closest thing Hitler had to a friend. Having narrowly escaped hanging at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, Speer emerged from twenty years in Spandau prison, as he thought, a changed man. But even as he published his best-selling accounts of the Third Reich, the extent of his complicity in Nazi crimes returned to haunt him. David Edgar's panoramic adaptation of Gitta Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography tells the epic story of a man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth-century. With support from NT New Drama Circle.

Cast/Performers

Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Chloe Angharad, Patrick Baladi, Stephen Ballantyne, Tilly Blackwood, Cathryn Bradshaw, Sally-Ann Burnett, Martin Chamberlain, Elizabeth Conboy, Jonathan Cullen, Simon Day, Pip Donaghy, William Gaunt, Christine Kavanagh, Patrick Marlowe, Charles Millham, Iain Mitchell, Sylvester Morand, John Nolan, Adrian Penketh, Imogen Slaughter, Giles Smith, Jessica Turner, Chris Vance, David Weston, Benny Young

Creatives/Company

Author: David Edgar
Book by: Gitta Sereny
Company: Royal National Theatre
Director: Trevor Nunn
Design(s): Ian MacNeil, Chris Laing (video)
Costume: Joan Wadge
Lighting: Rick Fisher
Music: Steven Edis
Sound: Christopher Shutt
Choreographer: Kate Flatt