Halbwelt Kultur

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rdf:langString Poster shows a montage of the women represented in the show.

rdf:langString Patrick Kennedy, Stephanie Martin

rdf:langString Official poster of the show

rdf:langString Halbwelt Kultur is a 2012 musical cabaret based on the lives of seven highly influential women of the Weimar Republic. An original concept by Patrick Kennedy, the show was devised by PK Productions and includes music by Hans Eisler, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hollaender, Mischa Spoliansky and Fats Waller. The 2012 Churchill Theatre Bromley Cabaret VIP pre-show production became a hit and spawned a seven cast strong production premiering at the New Wimbledon Theatre in April 2013. The show presents snapshot vignettes of the women set against the sound of the period's finest songs and the backdrop of the rise of World War II. It is based on verbatim interviews and accounts of the period and is a series of Brechtian vignettes magnifying the personalities of the women's lives. Each vignette is framed with a famous song from the period and describes the rise to success of the women and the ultimate fleeing from Berlin due to the growing threat of Nazism.