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Gross and Klein

Fri 13 Apr 2012 to Sun 29 Apr 2012

Barbican Theatre

Silk Street

London

EC2Y 8DS


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Luc Bondy production with Cate Blanchett for Sydney Theatre Company
Big-names are coming to the Barbican this year, with Cate Blanchett leading a Sydney Theatre Company co-production of the surreal play Gross und Klein by German playwright, Botho Strauss. The piece, first staged in 1978, has a new English text by playwright Martin Crimp, by theatre director Luc Bondy. Gross und Klein (Big and Small) whisks audiences down a rabbit hole and into a Wonderland-like world to a hotel dining room in Morocco where Lotte (Cate Blanchett) sits alone.

Within a sequence of scenes Lotte searches for human connection; rejected by her husband, unrecognised by old friends and unfamiliar to her family, the protagonist never quite fits. Like Carroll’s Alice, sometimes Lotte is too big for her surroundings and sometimes too small to be noticed within them.