Highlights
🎭 An intriguing story set during the Cold War
👉 The best theatre in the heart of Lavapiés
🍸 If you buy a drink at the theatre bar, you can enjoy it while watching the show
General Info
📅 Date and time: select your date and time directly in the ticket selector
📍 Location: La Escalera de Jacob, Madrid
⌛ Duration: approximately 60 minutes
❗ No entry will be permitted once the show has started
👉 You can enter the show with a drink, as long as it has been purchased at La Escalera de Jacob's bar
🪑 Seats are numbered. The theatre will assign you the best available seat at the time of your purchase
❓ Tickets purchased for this experience are final and do not admit refunds, exchanges or modifications. For more information, you can consult our T&Cs
Credits
- Written by: Alba Quiñones
- Directed by: Alba Quiñones
- Performed by: Alba Quiñones and José Urzáiz
Description
In October 1961, Checkpoint Charlie was the scene of a face-to-face confrontation between American and Soviet tanks during the Cold War. For 16 hours, they came close to starting a third world war. One man was inside that booth, one man witnessed it all firsthand. One man carried the weight of the world on his shoulders, but also the weight of love.
Jürgen is a soldier from East Germany who just wants to do his job, follow orders and, if he's lucky, get home in time for dinner with Sabine, the woman he loves. But when an American diplomat refuses to identify himself to him, what seems like a small bureaucratic conflict turns into an international crisis.
As the governments on both sides move their pieces and the tanks begin to surround Checkpoint Charlie, Jürgen will have to face something much more dangerous than war: his own feelings.
Maybe the world is on the brink of destruction because of big egos driven by broken men.
Maybe it all started because one man wanted to go to the opera and another just wanted to get home in time
And maybe, in the middle of a war that no one wants, the only way out is love. Get your tickets for Checkpoint Charlie at La Escalera de Jacob, Madrid!
🎭 An intriguing story set during the Cold War
👉 The best theatre in the heart of Lavapiés
🍸 If you buy a drink at the theatre bar, you can enjoy it while watching the show
General Info
📅 Date and time: select your date and time directly in the ticket selector
📍 Location: La Escalera de Jacob, Madrid
⌛ Duration: approximately 60 minutes
❗ No entry will be permitted once the show has started
👉 You can enter the show with a drink, as long as it has been purchased at La Escalera de Jacob's bar
🪑 Seats are numbered. The theatre will assign you the best available seat at the time of your purchase
❓ Tickets purchased for this experience are final and do not admit refunds, exchanges or modifications. For more information, you can consult our T&Cs
Credits
- Written by: Alba Quiñones
- Directed by: Alba Quiñones
- Performed by: Alba Quiñones and José Urzáiz
Description
In October 1961, Checkpoint Charlie was the scene of a face-to-face confrontation between American and Soviet tanks during the Cold War. For 16 hours, they came close to starting a third world war. One man was inside that booth, one man witnessed it all firsthand. One man carried the weight of the world on his shoulders, but also the weight of love.
Jürgen is a soldier from East Germany who just wants to do his job, follow orders and, if he's lucky, get home in time for dinner with Sabine, the woman he loves. But when an American diplomat refuses to identify himself to him, what seems like a small bureaucratic conflict turns into an international crisis.
As the governments on both sides move their pieces and the tanks begin to surround Checkpoint Charlie, Jürgen will have to face something much more dangerous than war: his own feelings.
Maybe the world is on the brink of destruction because of big egos driven by broken men.
Maybe it all started because one man wanted to go to the opera and another just wanted to get home in time
And maybe, in the middle of a war that no one wants, the only way out is love. Get your tickets for Checkpoint Charlie at La Escalera de Jacob, Madrid!
