Performance

Venue	Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse)
	Also: Courtyard, Quarry, Bramall Rock Void
Town	Leeds
County	West Yorkshire
From	17th October 2017
To	28th October 2017
When	19:30. Thu Mat 13:30. Sat Mat 14:00
Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse) (V977)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

The Tin Drum

Work:: The Tin Drum (S01360329748)

Oskar Matzerath, the son of a permissive bourgeois couple is born with a fully developed intellect. Outraged by the passivity of the German people regarding the unstoppable growth of Nazism, the decadence of his family, and the world around him, he decides he will take a stand against the adult world by refusing to grow up. On his third birthday, when given a tin drum he was promised at his birth, he decides to remain three years old for the next 18 years, using his drum as his means of protest.

Book by

Gunter Grass

Production:: (T0183345158)

Often hailed as one of the greatest novels ever written, Gunter Grass' surreal post-war masterpiece has never been more prescient. Kneehigh will retell this extraordinary story of love, war and fizz powder as startling musical satire: part Baroque opera, part psychedelic white-out, part epic poem. A burlessque, a blitzkreig, a tidal wave about to break.

Author	Carl Grose
Music	Charles Hazlewood
Director	Mike Shepherd
Design	Naomi Dawson
Lighting	Malcolm Rippeth
Sound	Ian Davies
Director	Sarah Wright (puppet direction)
Producer	Kneehigh
Producer	Everyman & Playhouse
Producer	West Yorkshire Playhouse
Performer	Nandi Bhebhe
Performer	Les Bubb
Performer	Dom Coyote
Performer	Damon Daunno
Performer	Rina Fatania
Performer	Ross Hughes
Performer	Angela Hardie
Performer	Bettrys Jones
Performer	Patrycja Kujawska
Performer	Alex Lupo
Performer	Beverly Rudd
Performer	Ruth Wall
Performer	Sarah Wright

Listing:: L1670750682

Production details

Often hailed as one of the greatest novels ever written, Gunter Grass' surreal post-war masterpiece has never been more prescient. Kneehigh will retell this extraordinary story of love, war and fizz powder as startling musical satire: part Baroque opera, part psychedelic white-out, part epic poem. A burlessque, a blitzkreig, a tidal wave about to break.

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