Berlin in the '20s & '30s

Sunday 3 March 2013 - Thursday 28 March 2013

Cabaret, paranoia, Freud and fascism

An age of austerity, decadence and political extremism. Berlin, suffering from Germany’s rampant inflation and reparations after losing the First World War, becomes a hotbed of decadence and strife. This volatile backdrop ultimately helps create a monster, but also many things of twisted beauty.

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Past Events

1 Mar 2013

Liza Minnelli

+ Clare Teal

1 Mar 2013

Liza Minnelli

+ Clare Teal

Returning to Royal Festival Hall for the first time since 1973, Liza Minnelli brings her greatest hits to London for one night only on 1 March as ...

1 Mar 2013

Orff's Schulwerk

1 Mar 2013

Orff's Schulwerk

Famous for his cantata 'Carmina Burana', composer Carl Orff also devised a system of music education in the 1920s that has been profoundly influen ...

1 Mar 2013

All The King's Men

1 Mar 2013

All The King's Men

One of the UK's freshest all-male a cappella groups bursts onto the Friday Tonic stage to pay homage to the Comedian Harmonists, the international ...

2 Mar 2013

London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Threepenny Opera

2 Mar 2013

London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Threepenny Opera

Kurt Weill never set out to write a masterpiece - instead to provoke and entertain normal people with ready, urgent music that made a relevant pol ...

2 Mar 2013

London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future Firsts

2 Mar 2013

London Philharmonic Orchestra Foyle Future Firsts

A concert performance of Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel.

2 Mar 2013

Berlin in the 20s and 30s Saturday Pass

2 Mar 2013

Berlin in the 20s and 30s Saturday Pass

Weimar Germany was a nation struggling for an identity - explore the many different facets of Berlin, the centre of Germany's political and artist ...

2 Mar 2013