EPISODE · May 5, 2025 · 46 MIN
How To Die: Andy Pederson
from By George! · host A.D. Players at the George Theater
Famous pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's story comes to life at the George Theater. Bonhoeffer, who, upset by the complacency he saw in the German church toward the Nazi party, makes the hardest decision he's ever had to make-- a willing attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Hear how his story, from boyhood to martyrdom, was brought to the stage, from the playwright himself Andy Pederson. How does one write a play on a historical figure? What is reality and what is dramatized? What makes it from the script to the stage? All these questions answered and more in this episode of By George!
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Famous pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's story comes to life at the George Theater. Bonhoeffer, who, upset by the complacency he saw in the German church toward the Nazi party, makes the hardest decision he's ever had to make-- a willing attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Hear how his story, from boyhood to martyrdom, was brought to the stage, from the playwright himself Andy Pederson. How does one write a play on a historical figure? What is reality and what is dramatized? What makes it from the script to the stage? All these questions answered and more in this episode of By George!
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