11. The First Reading
Lessons of the 'Troupe 1931' Theater Ensemble
The original author of these essays was Ingeborg Franke von Wangenheim.
After working on all the material we’d collected to support the writing of our first play, our director Gustav von Wangenheim came up with a key-note lecture, a sort of narrative that summarized everything we’d learned. Several pages long, the document became the “political baseline” or general story-framing we’d use to understand the context of our characters, the stage-settings, the different scenes, and so on. In broad strokes, von Wangenheim painted the “big picture” into which our drama about factory-line shoe-makers would fit.
