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JUDENFREI: Love and Death in Hitler’s Germany

3-30 January 2011

NEW END THEATRE, 27 New End, Hampstead, London NW3 1JD

Written by Kate Glover
Directed by Tom Scott
With a strong cast of six


Press Night Wednesday 5 January at 7.30pm

 
A love story, Judenfrei, explores the lives of Hanna Löwenfeld and Philipp Meier, two promising young Jewish lawyers in 1930s Berlin who became victims of Hitler’s 1933 act barring Jews from practising law. Hanna, Philipp and their families are put in grave danger when Philipp receives a mysterious telephone call from a stranger and is forced to make a life changing decision.  
 
Judenfrei is a new play by Kate Glover based on the real life story of Dr Wilhelm Dickmann (1900-1987), a German lawyer of Jewish origin and Dr Elizabeth Kohn (1902-1941), a German lawyer and practising Jew.
 
Kate Glover, a member of the All Hallows By The Tower Church, was inspired to write Judenfrei, when she saw the 2009 exhibition LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS mounted by the Temple Church, the Jewish Museum London and the German Federal Bar.
http://www.http//www.barcouncil.org.uk/news/press/704.html 
 
Kate Glover says: 'The impact of the LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS exhibition, which I saw by mere chance was extraordinary.  Case studies of men and women were pasted around the walls of the Temple Church. Some managed to flee Germany; others simply perished. And there were stories of people who somehow hid away for years but then who died shortly after the capture of Berlin  through sheer exhaustion.  I was still haunted by the sadness of a visit to the Synagogue at Budapest, literally the previous day.  It was the force of this co-incidence that hit me with the realisation that here, there was a play.'
 
For interviews& press tickets contact:
Alexa Christopher-Daniels, Press office New End Theatre 020 7472 5800 alexa@newendtheatre.co.uk
 
 
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Judenfrei: Love and Death In Hitler’s Germany

By Kate Glover
Directed by Tom Scott
Monday 3 to Sunday 30 January 2010
Tuesday – Saturday at 7.30pm
Saturday & Sunday at 3.30pm
Tickets: £18 concessions £16
Ticket sales 0870 033 2733
NEW END THEATRE, 27 New End, Hampstead, London NW3 1JD

www.newendtheatre.co.uk   

Kate Glover is an accomplished actor and playwright.  Her most recent theatre work was in The Trojan Women at the Cock Tavern Theatre, playing Hecuba.  Before that, she was in Julius Caesar at The Scoop, as the Soothsayer, Cinna the Poet and other roles in an exciting ensemble production for the 2010 Bardathon in October.  In July, she starred as Elisabeth Löwenfeld in Judenfrei: Love and Death in Hitler's Germany, a role that she will reprise in January. In October 2009, she was Alice in Two Week Wait. In April the same year, she took over the part of Ann in The Cocktail Hour (English Theatre of Hamburg).  Earlier, she played Hannah More in An African’s Blood (National Tour); Phyllis in Alan Ayckbourn’s Seasons Greetings (Arts Depot); Anne Vaux in Five Eleven (Tour); Claire in The Crush; Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest; Signora Hermil in L’Innocente; Mercedes Golden in Thugs and Sister Helena in The Sound of Music (BAC). Film roles include a Cabinet Minister in Love Actually (2003) and the Mother in Propriety (2006). TV includes Divorce - The Law and Love Where You Live for the BBC.  

She began writing plays over twenty years years ago.  Her recent plays include A Passionate Englishman (about William Penn), Evelina (an adaptation based on the novel by Fanny Burney), and Five Eleven or The Powder Treason, which coincided with the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. All these plays were produced in London, some continuing on tour, and enjoyed much positive feedback.  An African’s Blood opened within days of the 200th anniversary of the passing of the Act of Parliament abolishing the Slave Trade and toured nationally in 2007 and 2008.  Kate founded Historia Theatre Company (Registered Charity 1099807) with a view to putting on plays that have their source or inspiration in history.

Kate spent the earlier years of her career as a History teacher, before training as an actor.   
 
 
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