A German Life, Bridge Theatre, 2019.
Cast: Maggie Smith
Writer: Christopher Hampton
Director: Jonathan Kent
If this ends up being the only time I see Dame Maggie on stage then I'll be happy with that. It was a one woman show and was absolutely brilliant. Dame Maggie played a German women who accidentally became a Nazi as she didn't notice the rise of fascism around her and just went along with it.
The staging was incredible - the set moved imperceptibly forward until by the end she was right in the middle of the stalls. It moved so slowly that at first I couldn't be certain it was happening.
I was out and about on the day the tickets went on sale and ending up buying them in a lay-by near a big roundabout locally and given those circumstances it's a miracle I got them at all.
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