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London Theatre Musicals 
| Democracy | Democracy London Theatre Play Tickets from London Theatre Web | World Premiere of a play by Michael Frayn, directed by Michael Blakemore with set designs by Peter J Davison, costumes by Sue Willmington, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Neil Alexander.
Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else's face. All trying to guess which way everyone else will jump. All out for themselves and all totally dependent on everyone else. Not one Germany. Sixty million separate Germany's. The tower of Babel!
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DEMOCRACY
Wyndham's Theatre
Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0DA.
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square.
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Opened April 2004 at the Wyndham's Theatre
Booking to 16 October 2004
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm Performance length: 2 hours 25 minutes | Theatre Ticket Prices: (including booking fee and VAT)
Stalls £50.00
Circle £50.00
Grand Circle £39.00
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| | What's New | West Germany, 1969. Willy Brandt begins his brief but remarkable career as the first left-of-centre Chancellor for nearly forty years. Always present but rarely noticed is Günter Guillaume, Brandt's devoted personal assistant - and no less devoted in his other role, spying on Brandt for the Stasi.
Cast includes (April 2004) Roger Allam as 'Willy Brandt' and Conleth Hill as 'Günter Guillaume' along with with David Ryall, Nicholas Blane, Paul Broughton, Simon Chandler, Christopher Ettridge, Glyn Grain, Paul Gregory and Michael Simkins. |
Theatre Review | ...this new play, Democracy, is the most intelligent and gripping new English drama since, well, since Frayn's last stage outing with Copenhagen in 1998. You have to work hard at a Frayn play. Ferociously intelligent himself, he expects his audience to keep up with him... But, in Michael Blakemore's lucid, superbly acted production at the National's Cottesloe Theatre, Democracy also offers great entertainment. The prospect of watching 10 middle-aged men in suits (there are no women in the cast) re-enacting the German politics of three decades ago may sound daunting, but attention never flags..." The Daily Telegraph Michael Blakemore paces everything with terrific speed and clarity; my only complaint about his staging is that the final device when the scenery spills its contents on to the floor was already a cliche of London theatre 10 years ago. In every other respect, Democracy is compelling." The Financial Times |
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