LIPA Spring/Summer Season of Public Performances
February 2009 - June 2009
Thursday 21st May : 7.30pm
Friday 22nd May : 7.30pm
Saturday 23rd May : 7.30pm
Venue: Unity Theatre
Prices: Adults £7.00 Concessions £3.50
Tickets can be purchased from the Unity Theatre
Kindertransport
Between 1938 and 1939, around ten
thousand mainly Jewish children were given
away by their parents to be transported to
Britain to escape from Nazi controlled
Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria.
Many of them never saw their parents again.
The operation was known as ‘Kindertransport’.
Diane Samuels’ 1993 Meyer Whitworth
Award Winning play is set in the attic room
of a home where mother (Eva) and daughter
(Faith) are clearing out boxes. Faith happens
upon a box that reveals a secret – the identity
of her mother and her past that was kept
locked away. Eva, having been a victim of the
Kindertransport operation many years earlier,
has kept her German identity from her family
and herself. She must now face her history.
This hard-hitting play shows the effect that
such a historical tragedy has on three generations of women.
Not suitable for young children.
Performed by second year Acting students.