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Man to Man
A widow takes her husband’s clothes and builds a life inside them.
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In 1930s Germany, a woman puts on her dead husband’s trousers and never takes them off. As dictatorship, war, hunger and humiliation reshape the country around her, she fights to stay alive through more than thirty years of political upheaval. Manfred Karge’s play follows the survival of Ella and Max as the surrounding world repeatedly changes.
The drama centres on one woman’s long fight for survival, using gender, clothing and performed identity to move through more than thirty years of German history.
solo character studies, twentieth-century history, shifting identity and survival under dictatorship.
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- From 5 Sept 2026
- Booking until 24 Oct 2026
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