Manfred Karge’s Man to Man tells the story of Ella; a woman forced to adopt the identity of her dead husband in order to survive in Nazi Germany.
Compromising her own identity for survival, Ella is plunged into a new masculine world of beer, schnapps and poker; a claustrophobic existence dominated by the fear of discovery and the changing face of authority in a volatile twentieth century Germany.
This sell-out hit from the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival comes to Liverpool ahead of transferring to New York.
Photo: Polly Thomas
A Wales Millennium Centre production
Company
Performer Maggie Bain
By Manfred Karge
Translator Alexandra Wood
Directors Bruce Guthrie and Scott Graham
Reviews
Man to Man
★★★★★
"The main triumph is Maggie Bain's. She sculpts her voice & body to become a cast of dozens."
Man to Man
★★★★
"Entrancing spectacle"
"Dreamlike. Visually beautiful"
The Reviews Hub
Man to Man
★★★★★
"This is extraordinary: a seamless fusion of performance, direction, technical elements and text that is as magical as it is hard-hitting, and as life-affirming as it is depressing."
