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BERLIN

10 Mar - 17 Apr 2027

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Kiln Theatre in association with Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Eilene Davidson Productions presents

Berlin

by Joanna Murray-Smith

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One night, two lives, and a past that refuses to leave

Tom is travelling in Berlin with no hostel and no plan. When Charlotte, a native Berliner working in a bar, offers him the use of her couch, he can’t believe his luck.

Intoxicated by one another, they want to lose themselves to desire. But as night becomes morning, secrets emerge that cannot be ignored.

Joanna Murray-Smith’s gripping, contemporary thriller makes it UK debut following an acclaimed Australian premiere and asks is it better to remember or to forget?

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Special Performances

Alcohol Free Performance: 22 March, 7.30pm
Post show Q&A and Supporters’ Evening: 25 March. 7.30pm
Supporters’ Matinee: 14 April, 2.30pm

Access Performances

Audio Described Performance, preceded by a Touch Tour: 15 April, 7.30pm
Captioned Performance: 1 April, 7.30pm
Relaxed Performance: 7 April, 2.30pm

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Ticket Prices

£15 – £45

Duration

1 hour and 15 minutes with no interval

Dates

10 Mar - 17 Apr 2027

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Creative Team

Joanna Murray-Smith

Writer
Joanna Murray-Smith

Writer

Produced and translated all over the world in over two dozen languages, including on Broadway, the West End and at the Royal National Theatre, Joanna’s plays have been read or performed by many of the world’s leading companies and actors including Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Laura Linney, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Diana Rigg and many others. They include Honour, Julia, Berlin, The Female of the Species, Bombshells, American Song, Switzerland, Songs for Nobodies, Three Little Words, L’Appartement, The Gift, Ninety, Rapture, Nightfall, Love Child and many others.

Her adaptations include Scenes From a Marriage for Sir Trevor Nunn in London, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler and Uncle Vanya and the recently acclaimed adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley. 

She also writes for the screen and her film adaptation of Switzerland featuring Helen
Mirren, directed by Anton Corbijn, has recently completed filming in Italy and the UK
and will be released in 2026. This year Julia, her hit-play about Australia’s only female Prime Minister, completed a national tour playing to sell-out audiences. She has recently completed a film adaptation of her play, Honour, to film in the UK in 2026 and is also adapting Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend to the screen. Joanna has written many teleplays, two operas and three novels (published by Viking/Penguin). She been nominated for and won many awards, including an A.M. in the recent Australia Day Honors. 

Lucy Bailey

Director
Lucy Bailey

Director

Lucy Bailey studied English at Oxford University where she directed the world premiere of Lessness by  Samuel Beckett in consultation with the author. 

Productions include: Magic, The Other Boleyn Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Clive (Arcola Theatre) Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None (Fiery Angel, UK & China Tour) and Death On The Nile (Fiery Angel, UK & Ireland Tour) ; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Oleanna and Switzerland (Theatre Royal Bath & West End); Gaslight (Bill Kenwright, UK Tour), Witness for the Prosecution (site specific production, London’s County Hall), Ghosts (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Comus, A  Masque In Honour Of Chastity (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Globe), Kenny Morgan (Arcola, London).   

Lucy co-founded The Print Room a new venue in Notting Hill Gate and was artistic director from 2010 – 2012. Shows she directed include: Fabrication, Snake in the Grass, Kingdom of Earth and Uncle Vanya with Iain Glen. She was co-founder and co-artistic director of the gogmagogs (1995 – 2007) a music theatre company comprising seven string players. She directed/devised seven shows with the company which toured through UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Brazil, Australia and the US. 

Other credits include: Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, The Maid’s Tragedy (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Winter’s Tale, Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar (RSC/ Stratford/London/ New York); Baby Doll, The Night Season (National Theatre/West End); The Graduate, Great Expectations, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse/West End/ UK tour); Love From A Stranger , Gaslight (Royal & Derngate/UK tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (West End/UK tour); Fortunes Fool (London’s Old Vic); King Lear (Theatre Royal Bath); The Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Private Lives, Glass Eels, Comfort Me with Apples (Hampstead); Don’t Look Now (Crucible, Sheffield/Lyric Hammersmith); Cave (a site specific opera for London Sinfonietta and Royal Opera House, at the Print Works London); Tonight at 8.30, Stairs to the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre). 

Opera credits include: Glass Human (Glyndbourne), Gudrun Fier Sang (Copenhagen dry dock), Jenufa (English National Opera);  Cheryoumushki 1958 (Lyric Hammersmith); Noyes Fludde, Triptych, Mary of Egypt (Aldeburgh Festival); Pasolini’s Teorema (Maggio Musicale Florence/Munich Biennale/Queen Elizabeth Hall); Mitridate (Wexford Opera Festival).