Taking Sides By R Harwood

What would you do? That is the uncomfortable question asked by this play in the Forge Theatre. Set in a postwar denazification unit an American major interrogates conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who, he says, by remaining in Berlin throughout the war to conduct the Philharmonic, helped legitimise the Reich. . Yet Furtwängler, at the risk of his own life, helped many Jews to escape from Germany. Would it have been more honourable to leave and let them be killed? Strong Language.