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KINDERTRANSPORT
New Theatre, Cardiff, Tue 12-Sat 16 Nov
Tickets: £8.50-£26.
Info: 029 2087 8889 / www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
A story of love and pain, past and present, Diane Samuels’ play
Kindertransport has been staged across the world from the UK to New York,
Japan, South Africa and all across Europe. This heart-rending piece uses a
distressing period from European history and transcribes it into a timeless
story about the complex relationship between mothers and daughters.
The title Kindertransport comes from the name given to the rescue mission
set up by the British government in 1939, which gave Jewish children from
Nazi Germany and Europe safe passes to the UK sparing them the horrors
of death camps. In the nine months before World War II over 10,000 Jewish
children were brought to the UK.
Beginning in Nazi Germany in 1939, a desperate mother forces her nine year
old daughter on to a train and out of danger willing her to survive. The story
picks up decades later in England, where a reluctant mother is preparing for
the departure of her grown-up daughter. A chance discovery of an old suitcase
in the attic reveals buried secrets and unhealed wounds.
Far from an historic piece, Kindertransport uses history as a platform to
portray every parent’s bittersweet experience, that of teaching their child to
survive alone. Thus proving it to be a traumatic experience, no matter what
the circumstance.
Directed by Andrew Hall and starring Janet Dibley (Eastenders, Doctors) and
Paula Wilcox (Emmerdale, The Smoking Room) this is a timely production as
2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport programme.
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