Details

Tunnels It's 1968. The Cold War is at its height. Cousins Paul and Freddie Metz want to escape East Berlin; the only thing in their way is a 20 metre ‘death strip', hundreds of landmines and the East German secret police. With live musical accompaniment and based on the real-life escape stories of the men and women who made it to the other side, Tunnels tells of their struggle to burrow under the Berlin Wall. With strong resonances in the UK today Tunnels is a show about love, loyalty, family, nationhood and of course - digging. Press - Bertie doesn't need you to like him. He doesn't care. He's done some terrible things and his attempts to remedy them have come to no good either. Maybe it's the journalist in him, but he needs someone to listen. To his story, as an ex-tabloid hack who made a living doing whatever was necessary, whatever the cost. But things have gone badly wrong and now it's time to bring his skeletons out of the closet. How can so much have been done with so few consequences? And how can the telling of truth be so much more dangerous than the telling of lies? Might his one attempt to be a ‘good person' end in him losing everything dear to him. Will you laugh with him - or at least at him - for a moment; he needs someone to understand.

Cast/Performers

Lewis Bruniges (Tunnels), Oliver Yellop (Tunnels), Sam Hoare (Press)

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Oliver Yellop (Tunnels), Sam Hoare (Press)
Presented by(s): Further Theatre (Tunnels), Park Theatre (Press)
Director(s): Colin Ellwood (Tunnels), Romola Garai (Press)