I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin which is part of The Berlin Stories. The title is a quote taken from the novel’s first page: I am a camera with its shutter open quite passive recording not thinking. The original production was staged by John Van Druten with scenic and lighting design by Boris Aronson and costumes by Ellen Goldsborough.
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author
John Van Druten
character in play
Christopher Isherwood, Clive Mortimer, Fraulein Schneider, Fritz Wendel, Mrs. Watson-Courtneidge, Natalia Landauer, Sally Bowles
IBDB ID
4590
premiere date
1951-11-28
premiere year
1951-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
A room in Fraulein Schneider's flat in Berlin 1930
subject of play
An English writer living in Berlin before the rise of the Hitler regime
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