Taking Sides
Taking Sides Author: Ronald Harwood
First Performance: 1995, Chichester
Published: 1995
Genre: Hist. drama in 2 acts
Setting: Major Arnold's office, bombed-out German city (Berlin), 1946
Cast: 4m, 2f
US Major Steve Arnold is collecting evidence for the Tribunal of Artists of the Denazification Commission. Specifically, he is looking into the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler's relationship with the Nazi regime, aided by a keen young assistant Lieutenant David Wills. Each member of Furtwängler's orchestra insists that he was anti-Hitler, and the wife of a Jewish pianist gives evidence that Furtwängler helped him to escape to Paris. However, Arnold admits that he is not interested in ‘justice, evidence, facts’, but in ‘nailing the bastard’. He aggressively interrogates Furtwängler, who denies any...
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