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Albert
Speer
by
David Edgar
based
on Gitta Sereny's book
Albert Speer: His Battle With
Truth
Performed
at
The National Theatre, London
Opened at the Lyttelton Theatre
on 25th May 2000 |
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Pictures
from Albert Speer
(please
click on each picture for a larger version)
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| Roger
Allam as Adolf Hitler with Alex Jennings
as Albert Speer |
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| Roger
in rehearsals for Albert Speer |
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| CAST: |
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| Albert
Speer |
Alex
Jennings |
| Judge |
John
Nolan |
| Rudolf
Wolters, architect |
Simon
Day |
| Theodor
Ganzenmuller, railway official |
Patrick
Baladi |
| Karl
Hanke, party official, later Gauleiter |
Iain
Mitchell |
| Heinrich
Himmler, Reichsführer-SS |
Benny
Young |
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| Spandau
Prison, 1947 |
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| French
Officer |
Patrick
Baladi |
| Russian
Director |
Charles
Millham |
| Soviet
Guards |
Stephen
Ballantyne, Patrick Marlowe,
Adrian Penketh, Giles Smith, Chris Vance |
| Georges
Casalis, a Calvinist pastor |
Jonathan
Cullen |
| Gauleiter
Konstantin von Neurath |
Pip
Donaghy |
| Admiral
Karl Dönitz |
Martin
Chamberlain |
| Baldur
von Schirach, Hitler Youth Leader |
David
Weston |
| Rudolf
Hess, Hitler's Deputy |
Sylvester
Morand |
| Walther
Funk, Minister |
Iain
Mitchell |
| Admiral
Erich Raeder |
Benny
Young |
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| Germany
and the Occupied Territories, 1931-45 |
| Hans
Tessenow, architect |
Pip
Donaghy |
| Architecture
students |
Patrick
Baladi, Stephen Ballantyne,
Patrick Marlowe, Adrian Penketh,
Giles Smith, Chris Vance |
| Aldolf
Hitler |
Roger
Allam |
| Margareta
(Margaret) Speer, Albert Speer's wife |
Jessica
Turner |
| Anne-Marie
Wittenberg (later Kempf) Speer's secretary |
Christine
Kavanagh |
| Julius
Schaub, adjutant |
John
Nolan |
| Colonel
Nicolas von Below, adjutant |
Adrian
Penketh |
| Dr
Fritz Todt, Minister of Armaments |
Pip
Donaghy |
| Speer's
Father |
William
Gaunt |
| Frau
Maria von Below |
Imogen
Slaughter |
| Eva
Braun |
Cathryn
Bradshaw |
| Frau
Anni Brandt |
Tilly
Blackwood |
| Adjutants |
Stephen
Ballantyne, Charles Millham |
| Fraulein
Johanna Wolf, secretary |
Sally
Ann Burnett |
| Fraulein
Christa Schroder, secretary |
Elizabeth
Conboy |
| Major |
Benny
Young |
| Ukrainian
"Tufties" |
Chloe
Angharad, Sally Ann Burnett,
Elizabeth Conboy, Imogen Slaughter |
| Speer
Construction Workers |
Martin
Chamberlain, Patrick Marlowe,
Giles Smith, Chris Vance |
| State
Secretary, Ministry of Armaments |
John
Nolan |
| His
assistant |
David
Weston |
| Ernst,
Speer's brother |
Stephen
Ballantyne |
| Dr
Professor Friedrich Kock |
David
Weston |
| Nurses |
Chloe
Angharad, Sally Ann Burnett |
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| Germany
and England, 1966-81 |
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| Hans
Flachsner, Speer's lawyer |
David
Weston |
| Pressmen |
Martin
Chamberlain, Patrick Marlowe,
Charles Millham, John Nolan,
David Weston, Chris Vance, Benny Young |
| Heckler |
Iain
Mitchell |
| Albert
Speer, Speer's son |
Stephen
Ballantyne |
| Hilde
Schramm, Speer's daughter |
Cathryn
Bradshaw |
| Ulf
Schramm, her husband |
Iain
Mitchell |
| Ruth,
Albert Junior's wife |
Sally
Ann Burnett |
| Arnold
Speer, Speer's son |
Chris
Vance |
| Fritz
Speer, Speer's son |
Giles
Smith |
| Margret
Nissen, Speer's daughter |
Elizabeth
Conboy |
| Hans
Nissen, her husband |
Adrian
Penketh |
| Ernst
Speer Junior |
Patrick
Marlowe |
| Waitresses |
Chloe
Angharad, Imogen Slaughter |
| Wolf-Jobst
Siedler, Speer's publisher |
William
Gaunt |
| Mrs
Winteringham |
Tilly
Blackwood |
| Party-goer |
Tilly
Blackwood |
| Publishers |
Charles
Millham, Elizabeth Conboy |
| Chair
of University Meeting |
Sally
Ann Burnett |
| Questioners |
Martin
Chamberlain, Elizabeth Conboy,
Patrick Marlowe, Charles Millham,
John Nolan, Benny Young |
| Harry
Siegmund, former head of Protocol,
Posen Castle |
Martin
Chamberlain |
| Walter
Rohland, former head of the steel industry |
John
Nolan |
| Rohland's
secretary |
David
Weston |
| Robert
Raphael Geis, Rabbi |
Pip
Donaghy |
| David,
his assistant |
Patrick
Baladi |
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| TECHNICAL
TEAM: |
| Director |
Trevor
Nunn |
| Set
Designer |
Ian
McNeil
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| Costume
Designer
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Joan
Wadge |
| Lighting
Designer |
Rick
Fisher |
| Video
Designer |
Chris
Laing |
| Music
|
Steven
Edis |
| Movement
Director |
Kate
Flatt |
| Sound
Designer |
Christopher
Shutt |
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| What's
This Play About? |
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| Plucked
from obscurity to be Hitler's favourite
architect and later promoted to Minister
of Armaments and War Production, Albert
Speer became the second most powerful
man in Nazi Germany, and the closest thing
Hitler had to a friend. Having
narrowly escaped hanging at the Nuremberg
war crimes trial, Speer emerged from
twenty years in Spandau prison, as
he thought, a changed man. But even
as he published his bestselling accounts
of the Third Reich, the extent of
his complicity in Nazi crimes returned
to haunt him.
David Edgar's
panoramic adaptation of Gitta Sereny's
definitive and magisterial biography
tells the epic story of a man whose
devotion to Hitler blinded him to
the worst crime of the twentieth-century.
Alex Jennings
plays Speer. His award-winning work
for the RSC includes the title roles
in Peer Gynt and Hamlet and Hitler
is played by Roger Allam whose recent
work at the National includes Troilus
and Cressida, Summerfolk and Money
for which he won the Olivier Award
for Best Supporting Actor.
David Edgar's
previous work includes The Shape of
the Table and Entertaining Strangers
at the National; Destiny and the adaptation
of Nicholas Nickleby at the RSC.
Gitta Sereny's
other books include Into That Darkness
and Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary
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