Over There

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“You're my brother. I was over there. You were over here. No more. Here. There. We're … everywhere. No. We're both here. I love you.”

Warwick University Drama Society presents an amateur production of Mark Ravenhill's 'Over There'. An intense drama of synchronous disconnection, 'Over There' is an allegory of competing ideologies set across the Berlin Wall.

When the mother of identical twins, Franz and Karl, defects to the West, she escapes only with Franz, leaving Karl behind. Twenty-five years later, Karl crosses the border from East Germany to West Germany to find his other half. The two men have shared experiences, know scraps of each other’s lives and talk at the same time, but the gulf of ideology and upbringing between them is impossible. As history takes an unexpected turn, the brothers must struggle to reconnect.

Ravenhill’s visceral, confrontational play examines the hungers released when two ideologies, separated by a common language, meet again.