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Cabaret You enter the theatre to watch Cabaret, the musical created in 1966 which is based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood. The book is called The Berlin Stories.

Cabaret is set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power and the focus is on the nightlife at the Kit Kat Klub. It revolves around a 19 year old cabaret performer and her relationship between a young American writer, Cliff Bradshaw.

The music was by John Kander and the lyrics were written by Fred Ebb. The sub- plot involves a condemned romance between a German boarding house owner, Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Watching the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub.

Christopher Isherwood Christopher Isherwood was an English-American novelist and was born 26 August 1904 in Cheshire, England. He deliberately failed his tripos and left collage without a degree in 1925. He lived with violinist André Mangeot for the next few years while studied medicine. During this time he wrote a book of nonsense poems, //People One Ought to Know//, which was illustrations by Mangeot's eleven-year-old son, Sylvain. It was not published until 1982 .

he left Berlin in 1933 and travelled around Europe until 1938 when he went to China for inspiration for his book, Journey to a War which was based on the Sino-Japanese war. He moved to America and while he was living in Hollywood he met Truman Capote, a young who was later influenced by Isherwood's Berlin Stories, and his novel Breakfast at Tiffany's has hints of the story "Sally Bowles". He died in California, USA at the age of 81 in 1986. list of some of his works:
 * //Goodbye to Berlin // (1939)
 * The Berlin Stories (1945) which was the basis for cabaret. it is a book that consists of 2 short novels - Goodbye to Berlin and Mr Norris changes Trains.
 * People One Ought to Know (1982)

Piscator Edwin Piscator was born in 1893 in Germany and was a theatre director and producer. he created a "people's stage" in Berlin with the writer Hans Rehfisch at the Comedy-Theater on Alte Jacobsstrasse which was said to be a rival to the Volksbuhne. He was the creator of //The Salesman of Berlin// which is based in the early 1920's. It is said that he had a huge influence on theatre in Germany. "the boldest advance made by the German stage" - a description by the theatre historian Günther Rühle. Piscator's theatre techniques of the 1920's had an extreme influence on European and American production methods, such as an extensive use of still and cinematic projections and complex scaffold stages.

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