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Performance
| Venue | Lyttelton (National Theatre) |
| Other spaces: Lyttelton Loft | |
| Town | West End |
| County | Greater London |
| From | 3rd June 2008 |
| Opened | 10th June 2008 |
| To | 30th August 2008 |
| Prices | From £10.00. To £41.00. |
| What is currently on at Lyttelton (National Theatre) (V374) | |
Afterlife
T1134126487Afterlife explores the life of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt. Max Reinhardt, one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays. Each year at the Salzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play, Everyman, about God sending Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like Reinhardt, rejoices in his wealth and all the pleasures that money can buy. Then in 1938 Hitler declares his own day of reckoning and sends Death into Austria - whereupon Reinhardt, a Jew, is left as naked and vulnerable as Everyman himself. Afterlife is the story of how Reinhardt achieves his great ambition; though in a way he can scarcely have foreseen
| Author | Michael Frayn |
Archive :: production:T1134126487, play:S1812176814, venue:V374
Production details
Running time 2 hours 25 minutes inc. intervalSpecial Performances
- 1 Aug 08 Audio Described
- 2 Aug 08 Audio Described
- 16 Aug 08 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)
Company
| Producer | National Theatre |
| Director | Michael Blakemore |
| Design | Peter Wilkinson |
| Costume | Sue Willmington |
| Lighting | Neil Austin |
| Music | Paul Charlier |
| Sound | Paul Charlier |
| Performer | Roger Allam (Max Reinhardt) |
| Performer | David Burke (The Prince Archbishop) |
| Performer | Abigail Cruttenden (Helene Thimig) |
| Performer | Peter Forbes (Rudolf 'Katie' Kommer) |
| Performer | Glyn Grain (Franz) |
| Performer | Selina Griffiths (Gusti Adler) |
| Performer | David Schofield (Friedrich Muller) |
| Performer | David Baron (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Colin Haigh (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Sarah Head (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Nicholas Lumley (Everyman/Ensemble) |
| Performer | Elizabeth Marsh (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Charlotte Melia (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Hugh Osborne (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Peter Prentice (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Claire Winsper (Ensemble) |
| Performer | Rupert Young (Ensemble) |
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