Germany

Extract from the 2008 stage production of "The First To Go"

Nazi Germany. 1944
A Sanatorium for the Disabled in Limburg.
Siegfried is an inmate with brittle bones, a congenital disability.

Brunhilde, an auxiliary nurse volunteer. She lost her hand in a fire when
as an army nurse, the military hospital where she worked was bombed by British warplanes.

They have just learned that he, his two friends, Heide and Helmut, and other fellow patients are to be taken to the Hadamar Killing Centre nearby.

Cast

Cerrie Burnell - BRUNHILDE
Alan Clay - Helmut
Nick Field - Goebbels / Stauffenberg / Dr. Gottfried Gegner
Catherine Gillard - Dr. Eva Dreck / Else / Nina von Stauffenberg
Kenny Harvey - Dr. Karl Spottgeburt / Dr. Brandt / Treskow
Robyn Hunt - Heide
Rod Matthew - Dr. Todt / Fritz / Hitler / Sauerbruch
Nabil Shaban - Siegfried

Production team

Peter Clerke - Director
Designer - Gordon Davidson
Tim Brinkhurst - Musical Director
Christine Ross - Costume Designer
Paul Sorley - LX Designer
Davy O'Neil - Production Manager
Jo Kennedy - Stage Manager

Susannah Jeffries - General Manager
Fiona McCurdy - Marketing and Press
Marc Marnie - Production photographer

Promo video for

"The First To Go" by Nabil Shaban

an original theatre play about disabled people in Nazi Germany