Adelaide Fringe review 2017: Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
LAST year this performance earned a five star rating and, if possible, the messages and morals are now more pressing than ever.
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Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
Theatre *****
Tandanya Theatre , Feb 18 — March 19
LAST year this performance earned a five star rating and, if possible, the messages and morals are now more pressing than ever.
Ingrid Garner vividly recounts her grandmother’s childhood as she grows up in a Germany gripped by war and indoctrination.
Hers is not Isherwood’s classy pre-war Berlin but a coming of age story surrounded by Gestapo, phosphorous attacks and the nightly pitch black sprint to air raid shelters.
Garner channels the voices of her relatives through the tumultuous decades since the war ended while projected images and videos hammer home the tragedy and scale of World War II in a way no lone words can.
Emotionally taxing, Garner leads audiences through her grandmother’s childhood and shows that something as simple as innocence and youth is easily lost but impossible to recover.
Mitch Mott
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