FROM THE ARCHIVES

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Season: 1981-1982
January 1982 Hess
By Michael Burrell

Performed by CoPs Youth Group

 

Having been incarcerated in the infamous Spandau Prison for decades Rudolf Hess managed to give his guards the slip en route to a military hospital in an unknown location. He is on the run and takes refuge in a dark and anonymous empty space, coming face to face with the first group of people he has seen since 1945. This is his one opportunity to talk, to tell his story as he sees it. Hess ponders over what he might say about himself, the Third Reich and also the world we have created in the time since the downfall of the brutal Nazi regime. How much has really changed? Is it really a better place to live?

This production only had one performance.

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