“Your best work yet” Tracy Barr, Arundel, 29th April 2016

“Having assembled my thoughts since seeing this mind-blowing play last night, I would like to add that it is beautifully written and portrayed absolutely brilliantly by the entire cast. What would you do to protect your own skin? This question arises for many of the characters. My mind is still buzzing. It is also worth mentioning that the scene changes are ingeniously choreographed. Thank you to all concerned for a spectacular evening.” Jane Vrettos, Arundel, 29th April 2016

“I enjoyed Last Lunch, Betsy and Smoking Ban so I came along tonight! Excellent, so pleased I came to see it tonight and hope it goes well at Brighton!” Marion Milton, Arundel, 29th April 2016

“It was an incredible play and brilliantly cast and acted. A really uncomfortable experience – in the best possible way! I had my eyes closed for some of the scenes – so life-like. And the different stage sets, and costumes, albeit simple, moved the play forward in a very clever way.” Kathy Hammond, Arundel, 30th April 2016

“We thought the production was very high quality …. such a moving piece of drama. The cast were brilliant and in particular Isabella was superbly cast as Hilda bringing both determination and vulnerability to the role. The mother and son scene …. was the most powerful piece of drama I have seen in a very long time. I thought the way in which the propaganda pieces were depicted was ingenious and chilling. In short, we thought it was a brilliant and powerful depiction of well known historical events told in an inventive and very personal way. 
In fact we’ve not stopped talking about it! ….. thank you once again for such a wonderful experience and I hope that the production goes from strength to strength.” Claire

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1938. Sol is the pianist big brother, heir to the ancient Family Torah, all 304,805 handwritten characters of it, and Anya is his talented little sister. Together they live with their mother Martha, in prewar Frankfurt. 
And Sol is in love. With Hilda, violinist in the same orchestra, and daughter of local Nazi chief Klaus Brandt.
But life for Martha and her Frankfurt family is about to change. With life for Jews already harsh, the assassination of the German ambassador in Paris by a Jewish activist is enough for Hitler to unleash his SS attack dogs on Jews across the country. The November Progrom, Kristallnacht, is followed by deportations, expropriation of Jewish-owned properties and further tightening of anti-Jewish laws. 

As the war takes hold of Germany, both Sol and Hilda must make terrible choices. 
Sol has fake Aryan papers, but to really pass as a Good German he must demonstrate, in chilling form, his loyalty to the Reich. Hilda, defies her father and switches identity to a Jew, to go in search of Sol whom she assumes deported. Martha and Anya are meanwhile separated and we don’t know if we’ll ever see any of them again.

Finally, in Czechoslovakia, at a concentration camp at Theresienstadt, where many of Germany’s best Jewish artists have been corralled, strange reunions take place, and darkly-surreal artworks are commissioned. 
As secret identities, propaganda and deceptions run deep in the Nazi system, so it also runs through the network of those who would survive the killing machine.