Wolf's Lair - Hitler's Last Secretary

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Photo: Andrew Kennedy

Almost A Bird Theatre Collective (Antigone, Angels in America, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jeff Koons) presents Wolf's Lair. Devised and created by Chapman Tripp Award Winners Sophie Roberts and Willem Wassenaar. Performed by Sophie Roberts, directed by Willem Wassenaar.

BATS Theatre >>> Thu 26 Feb – Sat 7 March, 6.30pm, $16/$12/$10
Book @ BATS >>> book[at]bats.co.nz / 04 802 4175

WOLF'S LAIR. HITLER'S LAST SECRETARY. A PORTRAIT OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN IN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES.

"Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I now know that it was no excuse to be young. If I had never seen dead people before, I see them everywhere now, and at last, I can weep."
- Traudl Junge

The acclaimed Almost A Bird Theatre Collective (Antigone, Angels in America, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jeff Koons) performs the New Zealand premiere of their new devised work Wolf's Lair at BATS Theatre, 26 February-7 March, 6.30pm. Wolf's Lair is a solo show based on the life of Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary during World War II. Performed by Sophie Roberts, directed by Willem Wassenaar.

Germany, 1942. Taudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina. Instead, at 22 years old she became Adolf Hitler's personal secretary and she served him right until the bitter end. Claiming she was blind to the genocidal activities being carried out around her, Traudl Junge was a woman who spent the rest of her life battling to accept that the man who had dazzled her with his personality and kindness, was simultaneously bringing destruction to millions of people.

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Wolf's Lair is not a historical biography, but an examination of the ghosts of one woman's conscience; a woman who served a mass murderer and yet does not fit into the polarized territory of the hero's and the villains. A haunting portrait of an ordinary woman caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

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