Revisiting a part she first played almost 40 years ago at London’s Royal Court, the actor is riveting as a woman enduring Germany’s chaotic 20th century

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Born in 1938 Brandenberg, writer Manfred Karge had a front row seat to the post-World War II Cold War, and the dividing of Germany into East and West. Set during Germany’s Great Depression, when one in three workers lost their jobs, the play was inspired by the true story of Ella Gericke, a German woman who, took over her husband’s identity on his death for economic reasons. Tilda Swinton takes on the dual role of Ella, and Ella assuming the character of her husband Max Gericke. Karge put pen to paper in 1982, with the play written in German entitled ‘Jacke Wie Hose’, which was then translated into English by Anthony Vivis, and it is this translation that director Stephen Unwin and team have developed, and is the basis for the play that we see today.

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Starting in Germany in the 1930s, there is a stinging topicality to Manfred Karge’s play addressing the renaissance of Nazi ideology

Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided culture

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