BERLIN LOVE TOUR
A show by Playgroup
Welcome to Berlin!
Walk through this famously divided city and journey into the depths of the human heart. Visit the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate and the notorious site of Hitler's bunker. Hear stories of tragedy and lost love. Your experienced and charming guide will reveal the secrets of this city of angels and ruins, and may have a few stories of her own to tell along the way.
Dress for the weather, wear comfortable shoes, and bring an open heart.
BERLIN LOVE TOUR is a guided tour of Berlin with another city standing in for Berlin: an outdoor theatre performance about monuments and memory, the contradictory impulses to remember and forget, how places are charged with the events that happened there, and how we carry around all the places we've been inside us.
"Gorgeous"
FIVE STARS
Irish Theatre Magazine
"distils complex ideas into moving motifs... Berlin and love are beautifully, even painfully evoked."
FOUR STARS
The Irish Times
"This beautiful two hour show made me use my head, use my heart and connected me to my surroundings and my fellow paying punters in a way I haven't in theatre before"
Totally Dublin
Nominated for Best Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2010
Nominated for Best Female Performance, Best Off-Site Show, Dublin Fringe Festival 2010
Performed by Hilary O'Shaughnessy
Written by Lynda Radley after an idea by Tom Creed and Hilary O'Shaughnessy
Directed by Tom Creed
BERLIN LOVE TOUR was developed with the support of an Arts Council of Ireland Projects: New Work Award, a work in progress showing as part of Project Brand New, and MAKE, a residential workshop facilitated by Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum. It was first performed at Dublin Fringe Festival 2010, funded by an Arts Council of Ireland Theatre Project Award and a Cork City Council Theatre Project Award, and with support from Irish Theatre Institute and Rough Magic Hub. The international touring of BERLIN LOVE TOUR is generously supported by Culture Ireland.