Art, war, and the politics of culture collide in Sally Stubbs’ moving account of a family’s legacy of beauty and brutality. Anna, an established painter living in Canada, returns to Munich: the city she ran from decades earlier. As this poetic and powerful drama unfolds, Anna forces her family to answer tough questions about their past and the events of World War II. While her mother plays a private concert, history unravels, and Anna is confronted with a moral dilemma of her own. Inspired by factual events, Herr Beckmann’s People explores the question: How do we live with the choices we have made?

Sally Stubbs is an award-winning Vancouver-based playwright and educator who also performs, directs and produces. She is currently co-writing a musical set in Vancouver; a TV pilot inspired by Vancouver's first women police officers and her play And Bella Sang With Us; and webisodes inspired by her script Centurions. Sally's published plays include: Wreckage; Herr Beckmann's People; and And Bella Sang With Us (Scirocco Drama). An excerpt of Centurions was published in Ryga: A Journal of Provocations Number 2, (March 2010); and a brief excerpt of Our Ghosts was published online in Understory Magazine Issue 16 (2019): Diverse Stories of Women on Stage.

Sally was born in Winnipeg, where she still has cousins. She was raised in Victoria on Vancouver Island and completed two undergraduate degrees as well as a Master's Degrees in Art History and Writing at UVic where she also taught writing. She, her partner and their cat live in Vancouver, but go back to Victoria a lot. They miss the climate - yes, it's drier than Vancouver - WP, the wild ocean, the slower pace, and old friends.

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“...puts a movingly human face on personal entanglement in an evil regime.” – Georgia Straight