The world premiere of the stage adaptation of Ulrich Alexander Buschwitz's THE PASSENGER opens tonight at the Finborough Theatre - featuring Eric MacLennan.
Shot through with Hitchcockian tension, THE PASSENGER is the terrifyingly absurd story of Otto Silbermann, a criminal on the run who hasn’t committed a crime. Directed by multi-award-winning former artistic director of The Young Vic, Tim Supple.
23 year old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote THE PASSENGER at breakneck speed in 1938 in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht. Rediscovered 70 years later, The Passenger became an international hit, was translated into over twenty languages and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller more than 80 years after it was originally published.
Kristallnacht, Berlin, November 1938. The streets of Germany are an orgy of state-sanctioned violence.
As Nazi storm troopers batter down his door, respected businessman Otto flees his home and finds himself plunged into a new world order, his life dissolved overnight.
Betrayed by family, friends and colleagues, and desperately trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape his homeland that is no longer home…
Playing until March 15th.
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