Taking Sides - an Interview with Director Alison Cahill
During the first few weeks of rehearsals, we caught up with director Alison Cahill to learn more about the Highbury Players' upcoming production of Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood. Not a fan of blogs? Listen to the full interview over on YouTube . Taking Sides is a dramatisation version of the investigation – or interrogation – into Wilhelm Furtwängler who was the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. "We all like to think we’d make the right moral choice but... who’s to say what we would do in those circumstances?" Taking Sides in rehearsal: Andy Tomlinson as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Phil Nooney as Major Steve Arnold What can you tell us about the play and Furtwängler? Furtwängler was appointed to the position in 1933 by the Nazi Party and Hitler, and essentially became their ‘Poster Boy’. He decided to stay rather than leave the country, which potentially would have been an option for him, and continued to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic th
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