Berlin

For his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiting the city which so many young people regard as the most exciting in Europe. But there's something in Berlin's elusive character which makes him feel he's always missing the point. Now, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall, he reads a 55-minute meditation about Germany's restored capital ­ both what it represents in European history, and the peculiar part it has played in his own life.

Wall

The Israeli/Palestine security fence will one day stretch 486 miles, from one end of Israel to the other. It will be four times as long as the Berlin wall, and in places twice as high. In 40 minutes, Hare presents a history of the wall's building, an account of the lives of those who live on either side of it, and an exploration of the philosophy behind it.

Cast
David Hare

Direction
Stephen Daldry

One Evening is a fully staged performance of Samuel Beckett’s poetry with Schubert’s song cycle, Winterreise inspired by Beckett’s love of Schubert’s songs. Poignant in the extreme, the absurd sometimes bordering on; these are the ingredients that link the Viennese composer and the poet. Winterreise will be performed by Mark Padmore in a new English translation by Whitbread-wining poet, Michael Symmons Roberts.

Tenor Mark Padmore

Piano Andrew West

Actor Stephen Dillane

Director Katie Mitchell

Design Vicki Mortimer