Fears and Mysteries of the Third Reich (1979)

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Poster by Poster Designer

by Bertolt Brecht

Directed by Janet Harris

Performances: Sat 16th & Sun 18th June 1979, Prompt Corner


Introduction

An SLTC Youth Group Production.

Cast

THE BETRAYAL

THE PHYSICISTS

THE BAKERS

THE BLACK SHOES


THE BOX

RE-EMPLOYMENT

THE FARMER FEEDS HIS SOW

WINTER-AID FUND

MOTTO

THE ONE THEY LET OUT

PLEBISCITE

Crew

Reviews

Some review quotes go here


Gallery

Photograph by Philip Parker

Reminiscences and Anecdotes

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Janet Harris assisted by Kate Linnell took over the SLTC Saturday morning youth group from Mary Mawby and Mike Mawby. We continued drama exercises and worked on things like character development and more advanced acting skills. A Brecht piece was chosen for our Prompt Corner annual production, and my reflections now (as a 55-year-old) is that my 14-year-old self didn't have a clue about the depth of "fear and misery" being experienced by the characters we were playing! Again, there weren't many boys that year in the group, and my best friend Robert James and I ended up playing all the male characters. We did the production in the round, with the actors and audience inter-mingling, which we found difficult on the day - I recall that for "The Bakers" Robert and I were supposed to be running in a circle round a prison yard, and had to weave our way around the audience members. I think the subtleties of "the One They Let Out" were completly lost on me, alas. This was the last production I did with the youth group; I don't know whether the youth group stopped, or whether I stopped going - perhaps because I was starting my O Level courses and was involved in drama in other places, such as my church in Streatham Hill and my school in Tooting. It wasn't my last SLTC play though, which was to be Forty Years On (1980). I have the fondest memories of Saturday mornings in West Norwood; by the grand age of 14 I was going to and from the rehearsals on my own. Philip Parker (cast member)

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