Sorry, no salacious gossip here, but an invitation to come to the forthcoming Tricycle "Legal Luvvies" charity fundraising production of:
**Judgment at Nuremberg**
Directed by proessional actor and director, Sally Knyvette
Featuring an all star cast of lawyers, including a High Court judge (Michael Burton J) and a light sprinkling of QCs. Even some solicitors are being allowed out to tread the boards - although we are obviously under strict instructions not to upstage any of the barristers.
At: the wonderful Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn
Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 July - 8.00pm
Matinee: Saturday 9 July - 4.00pm
Box office: 020 7328 1000
The aim is to raise funds for the Tricycle's innovative social inclusion programme. This uses drama to help people connect with others and works with deaf children, young people at risk of exclusion from school and old people at risk of isolation.
Wednesday is already sold out (book now for other performances to avoid disappointment!). The Thursday performance has limited availability and is more expensive (as it is also raising funds for the Corinne Burton Memorial Trust).
The evening tickets include a light supper (choice of curries, usually) and a glass of wine afterwards. Network, or preferably just enjoy! Background to the play and this production It is 1947. Former German judges, said to have enforced some of the most extreme Nazi laws, are themselves on trial. The horrific discoveries at places like Auschwitz and Buchenwald are still fresh. But the Cold War has started, with Germany in its front line. New nationalistic pressures are building to brush the past aside. And, after all, it was not the judges who passed the laws, was it? The Tribunal judging the judges faces a daunting task. The play was made into a multi-Oscar winning film in 1961 starring Spencer Tracey and Burt Lancaster. Sadly, none of the Oscar-winners are available for this production. The cast this time is made up entirely of lawyers, following previous highly successful (well, we think so anyway) Tricycle lawyers’ productions of Twelve Angry Men, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, Inherit the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. *** I hope you will be able to come - and please forward a link to anyone else you think might be interested. When booking tickets by telephone, you should be asked which member of the cast has invited you - even if you don't know me, feel free to consider yourself invited by me and please introduce yourself at the post-show supper.
More information can be found at
http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/theatre/theatre-programme-
main/judgment-at-nuremberg/
Rob McCreath
Partner
Archon Solicitors
London EC4