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Poignant, vivid, gripping without being horrific...Stuns the audience with the power of original words...Deeply personal...Brings to life onstage a real family... A haunting tale...A true masterpiece…An amazing piece of work."
Presented Around the Country…Now Available for
REGIONAL, COMMUNITY AND UNIVERSITY THEATRES
- Cast of 6 or 7
- Minimal Unit Set and Few Props
- Simple Costumes
- Limited Memorization
- CD of Slides of Photographs and Letters (Optional)
Personal, intimate, and authentic, No Way Out is the true story of my family and their desperate attempts to escape Germany and find a haven elsewhere. The play unfolds on stage through actual letters, at once ordinary and extraordinary, written among my German Jewish family from 1938-1946. No Way Out centers on Gerda and Heinz, my aunt and uncle, an optimistic young couple stranded and isolated in their own country. At the core of the play is a father-daughter story that spans continents and years as my grandfather tries to save his daughter. Unlike many plays about the Nazi era, No Way Out is not graphic or violent; it is instead, the story of family love and devotion; humanity and dignity that the Nazis could not destroy.
No Way Out
is also available for school use as No Way Out Readers Theatre and No Way Out: Letters
and Lessons of the Holocaust, a Teaching Curriculum at
www.socialstudies.com.
It is also available as a short story with a teacher's guide in The Call of Memory: Learning About
the Holocaust Through Narrative, An Anthology and Teachers' Guide by Karen Shawn, Keren Goldfrad and
William Younglove, editors, available at
www.callofmemory.com,
www.socialstudies.com and
www.amazon.com,
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