Perhaps that is why the main characters in each book of the Danzig Trilogy are young boys when their stories begin. He knows first-hand that impressionable youth was most deeply affected by Hitler's mad debacle. In one essay from that collection titled 'What Shall We Tell the Children?' Grass wants to show the children of Germany the common, cumulative thread of guilt which weaves through the tattered fabric of the Third Reich. In On Writing and Politics: 1967-1983, a collection of his essays published in 1984 which echoes the same anxiety for his country found in the Danzig Trilogy, Grass often expresses his concern for paths that German youth are choosing and he reminds them of the future consequences of those choices. Using their unique narrative perspective allows Grass to tell a story, to comment on the period of the second World War in Germany, and to express concern for Germany's future. The children of Grass's trilogy perceive that such adults could not be trusted and so they rejected the adult world and took comfort and refuge in immaturity. For instance, brown-shirts are authority figures and, instead of serving as sources of knowledge, teachers indoctrinated children in the Nazi Party line.

They have a special affinity for the grotesque and the bizarre, not surprising when one considers the world in which they were growing up. Like all young people, they are at once curious, imaginative, unreliable, and naive. Youngsters in these books function as narrators, protagonists, and audience, and provide both theme and structure to Grass's writing. The first half was performed at the Arcola Studio 2 in September 2011, and we hope to complete this work whilst we still remember our lines.In this paper I explore the collective functions of children and adolescents in Glinter Grass's Danzig Trilogy, The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years.

Music consultation was given by Katrina Damigos. The ensemble included Charles Marshall and Joseph Ambrose-Edwards. It was devised by Jessica Barker-Wren, Pablo Navarro-MacLochlainn and Kate O'Connor. Pellegrino's 'Cat and Mouse' included original characters, such as The Hippocampus, half-man, half-seahorse, who led the audience on this exploration. We took this story as an opportunity to explore the workings of memory, how they are stored, reinforced, altered and erased over time in words and images. This figure looms large in the life of the narrator, Pilenz, who shares his recollections with awe and pinpoint accuracy.

It is a vivid and grotesque portrait of Joachim Mahlke as he grows from schoolboy to soldier, taking his huge adam's apple and heroic escapades from the submerged submarines of Danzig harbour to the battlefield. 'Cat and Mouse' was adapted from the novella by Gunter Grass of the same name, his sequel to 'The Tin Drum'.

Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass