VOICETHEATRE

 

This suspenseful music theatre piece unravels as a young American girl unearths the story of her Father’s cowardice and courage. Based on true events from the playwright’s life. A Jewish family escapes Berlin on the eve of WWII. Floor to ceiling archival footage, film, live original Klezmer music by Margot Leverett and friends (the Klezmatics) and singing.

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Philadelphia, 1968, David, a disillusioned American ex-Communist tells his daughter Sarah: "I got Brecht's children out. They're alive....” After her father's death, Sarah tries to unravel the truth of her father’s cowardice and courage.

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In 1937, a German Jewish boy begs the young idealistic David, to rescue his sister, Anna and her children, from Berlin. Anna is on a Nazi hit list. Risking her life, she is photographing evidence of the Third Reich.

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Back in America, 1939 afraid of the consequences, David refuses to take action until his wife, Vera passionately convinces him to assume a fake identity. With a tenuous plan and forged passport, David and Vera travel to Berlin, they find Anna and her children. Minutes before they are to board ship, David is interrogated by the SS.

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September 17-27, 2026

Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm

Saturday and Sunday matinees 2pm

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