Woman in Berlin

Country - Germany

Author - Unknown

Adapter - Eva Barr

Collaborators - Lookingglass Theatre

Director - Tracy Walsh

Synopsis -

The memoir, A Woman in Berlin, by Anonymous, is one woman's account of her experiences during the first eight weeks of the Russian invasion of Berlin in April, 1945.  This adaptation visits the material as if it is in the process of being staged as a play with a three-person acting company and a director some twenty years after the events described, and six years after its original publication, and subsequent suppression, in Germany in 1959.  The memoir was first published in the United States in 1954.