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Reader rating
Dir: Stephen Daldry.
Cast: David Hare
Description: David Hare's solo reading about what the German city represents in history and its role in his own life. Directed by Stephen Daldry.
Trains: Tube/BR: Waterloo 
Phone: 0207452 3000
Website: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Elegant: Berlin is at the National
Humour is not the characteristic one most readily associates with the stage works of David Hare. Yet in this delightful 55-minute meditation, written to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the toppling of the Berlin Wall, Hare muses wittily, as well as trenchantly, on the German capital and his long-held admiration for it.
Directed by Stephen Daldry, Hare reads the piece himself, walking about on a small platform on an otherwise bare stage. There’s none of the awkwardness that marked Via Dolorosa, his previous foray into this genre, but a pleasant confidence in his words, which only occasionally tip over into the self-congratulatory.
Hare elegantly combines an amusing account of the travails of writing the screenplay for The Reader with insightful slices of analysis of the city that is “taking a holiday from history”.
Berlin, in rep until 20 March (020 7452 3000, www.nationaltheatre.org.uk)
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