In Chichester, a heads-up for the pairing of two Ronald Harwood plays. Taking Sides, about the Nazi conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, is to be revived along side the world premiere of Collaboration, about another musical genius, Richard Strauss, who was also none too empathetic. Harwood, however, wants to set the record straight. “I come out pretty justly for Strauss,” he says. “What people have forgotten is that Strauss had a Jewish daughter-in-law and Jewish grandchildren. They said ‘do what we tell you or your grandchildren will be in danger’. You tell me what you’re going to do in those circumstances?”
