By Diane Samuels
Evelyn’s daughter Faith is moving out of the family home, and both mother and child are finding it hard to make the break. In the attic sorting out the teacups, Faith discovers a battered suitcase of her mother’s childhood things. Buried inside it is a secret: that Evelyn was once Eva, a nine-year-old Jewish girl who in 1939 was one of the thousands of children sent by their parents to the safety of the UK.
Completely unaware of her mother’s background, Faith begins to unwrap her mother’s carefully hidden secret, and the unspoken hurt and desperation that she had buried away with her belongings.
A moving story about the experiences of those who escaped the holocaust, based on the the testimonies of Kindertransport survivors.
This award-winning play was first staged by the Soho Theatre in London in them transferred to the West End and New York and subsequently toured around the world including Japan, Germany, South Africa, Canada and the USA.
Evelyn’s daughter Faith is moving out of the family home, and both mother and child are finding it hard to make the break. In the attic sorting out the teacups, Faith discovers a battered suitcase of her mother’s childhood things. Buried inside it is a secret: that Evelyn was once Eva, a nine-year-old Jewish girl who in 1939 was one of the thousands of children sent by their parents to the safety of the UK.
Completely unaware of her mother’s background, Faith begins to unwrap her mother’s carefully hidden secret, and the unspoken hurt and desperation that she had buried away with her belongings.
A moving story about the experiences of those who escaped the holocaust, based on the the testimonies of Kindertransport survivors.
This award-winning play was first staged by the Soho Theatre in London in them transferred to the West End and New York and subsequently toured around the world including Japan, Germany, South Africa, Canada and the USA.