KINDERTRANSPORT by Diane Samuels

At the Bath House Cultural Center
White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas

November 6 - 22, 2003

Directed by Niki Flacks

Featuring
Emily Gray, Elly Lindsay, Marilyn Setu, Dana Tanner, Caroline Wickwire and Wm. Paul Williams

Based on historical events, KINDERTRANSPORT is the story of Eva Schlesinger, put on a train in 1938 as a seven-year old and carried away with other Jewish children from Nazi Germany in a little-known rescue operation called the "Kindertransport." More than four decades later, she has become a quintessential Englishwoman who hides her origins from everyone, including her own daughter. In KINDERTRANSPORT, we see her past and present collide.

As her grown daughter questions her, a shattering truth emerges about Eva's identity, the true cost of survival, and the future that grows out of a traumatized past. A stunning dramatic creation, KINDERTRANSPORT transcends time, religion and country to engage audiences with universal themes. The characters struggle with the conflicts between individual needs and family ties; personal truth and historical lies; and tradition versus survival in the present.

Stage Management: Michael Wilkesen
Set Design: Rhonda Gorman
Lighting Design: Russell Dyer
Costume Design: Regan Adair
Sound Design: David Meyer
Props: Leslie Patrick
Photography: Ellen Locy
Producer: Terri Ferguson