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Five Plays From Berlin: Colloquialisms
SCENES FROM THE CLASS WAR
by Piers Paul Read
HOW DISASTER STRUCK THE HARVEST
by Derek Marlowe
THE DIFFERENCE
by Peter Bergman
GUILDENSTERN AND ROSENCRANTZ
by Tom Stoppard
THE SENTINEL
Tom Cullinan

Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
September 1964

The Questors Studio
October 1964

Directed by Peter Whelan, June Judson and Tom Stoppard

Programme
(The Questors)
Programme
(Berlin)
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Cast:
Sylvia Estop, Hugh Forsythe, Lawrence Irvin, June Judson, Don Kincaid, Michael Langridge, Myles McDowell, John Turner, Judith Watson, Peter Whelan

Production Team:
Robert Baley, Diane McDowell, Christine Reid, Judith Watson, Timothy Williams, Charles Wrighton, Tom Stoppard


Extract from "A Few Drops of Water - The Story of The Questors Theatre 1929-1989"

After the opening of the Playhouse in 1964, few 'bona fide' productions were mounted in the Stanislaysky Room for several years, although it was constantly in use — for rehearsed readings, for example. A number of one-off performances, perhaps best described as opportunist productions, were also mounted. One of these, in 1964, followed a Playwrights' Symposium in Berlin which had been attended by a group of Questors actors and was billed as 'Five Plays from Berlin'. This, remarkably, included the first production of the one-act version of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead (then entitled Guildernstern and Rosencrantz).