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This event has now finished Until Dec 13 2008 Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Rd, W11 3HQ Full details & map

Theatre: Off-West End

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Designer Naomi Dawson uses the close scale of the Gate Theatre to make the audience feel the claustrophobic paranoia which is the main – at times the only – emotional dimension of Falk Richter's dystopic German drama. A glass wall separates the actors from the play's Woman and Man, who are trapped in their living room, their lives, and a gated community which seems to be echoing with gunshots underneath the soothing pumped-in muzak of the waves. Why are they nameless? Well, Richter's play has aspirations towards Orwellian, universal political significance – meaning it raises some big personal and political questions about ideological imprisonment, but expresses them too vaguely to keep the audience completely gripped.

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Gate Theatre

A doll's house of a theatre, with rickety wooden chairs as seats, the Gate devotes itself almost exclusively to foreign drama, often in specially...

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