Theatre - "The Lives of Others"

Listening changes everything.

1984. East Germany. A writer and an actor are placed under state surveillance. From the attic above their apartment, a Stasi man listens for evidence of subversion. But . . . what was first an operation to prove guilt becomes a story about empathy and complicity. To observe a life is to risk changing your own. 

Olivier Award-winner Robert Icke  (Oedipus, Oresteia, Romeo & Juliet) adapts and directs this first stage version of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s acclaimed film , starring:

Keira Knightley (Black Doves, Atonement, The Misanthrope) 

Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones, The Tunnel, Vigil)

Luke Thompson(Bridgerton, Dunkirk, Oresteia)

"The Lives of Others" revisits a story that has only grown more contemporary over time. Living in a culture shaped by surveillance, technological identification, and loose definition of freedom, this play asks us to ponder what lives on when our thoughts and speeches are captured, even in our most intimate moments, and what the cost of humanity means. 

NOTE: There will be an optional Pre-Theatre Dinner at your own expense. Details will be emailed from the Activity Leader closer to the event to the KCWC members who have purchased a ticket to the musical.

For any queries contact event organiser Viola Hindley at theatre@kcwc.org.uk