Plays 2: Taking Sides / Poison Pen / Tramway Road / The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold / After the Lions / The Guests

by Ronald Harwood

This play deals with the period leading up to Wilhelm Furtwangler's appearance before a de-Nazification tribunal in Berlin in 1946. Furtwangler was one of the great conductors, but his misfortune was to have been at the height of his career when the Nazis came to power.

336 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) was an author, playwright and screenwriter. He was most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).

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Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taking Sides - read to remind me of the superb Chichester revival back in 2009, with Pennington and Horovitch as Furtwangler and his interrogator. Next, Collaboration, the companion piece with the same two actors as Strauss and Zweig.
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