Terror: Ferdinand Schirach - Softcover

Schirach, Ferdinand Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057134075X ISBN 13: 9780571340750

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

Guilty or not guilty?

Enter the courtroom, hear the evidence, make your judgement.

A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down the plane killing 164 people to save 70,000.

Put on trial and charged with murder, the fate of the pilot is placed in the audience's hands.

Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror, in a translation by David Tushingham, received its UK Premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, in June 2017.

About this title

Review:

Theatre at its best. (The Sunday Times)

A stickily complex moral tale that will leave you debating long after the defendant's fate is sealed. (The Times)

A super play. powerfully topical. (Daily Mail)

Demands a serious level of scrutiny and engagement. [Terror] offers a serious and sympathetic examination of some of the immense, even impossible, choices presented by new and horrific threats. It draws on the legacy of drama as a forum in which to consider terrible human dilemmas. (Financial Times)

About the Author:

Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and writer, who lives in Berlin. His story collections Crime and Guilt and novels The Collini Case and The Girl Who Wasn't There (Tabu) have been published in more than forty countries and sold millions of copies worldwide. The first production of Terror took place on the same evening in October 2015 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Schauspielhaus, Frankfurt. It has since been staged in Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, the USA and Venezuela. Further openings are to follow in China, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden and the Czech Republic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 057134075X
• ISBN 13: 9780571340750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128