ADDRESS UNKNOWN
- Author:
- Lena Zak
- Posted:
- Monday, 20 February 2012
Set in 1932, Address Unknown is a story of friendship, betrayal and ideology, played out against the background of World War II, and portrayed through the letters between two men: German-born Martin Schulse; and Max Eisenstein, his San Fransisco-based gallerist business partner… who also happens to be a Jew.
Based on what director Moira Blumenthal calls an incredibly forward-thinking novella by American author Kathrine Taylor, written at the time of the War, the work, “has all the essential elements of drama.”
Blumenthal was drawn to the challenge of Address Unknown’s seeming ‘anti-action’. Certainly, staging a story chronicled via letters presented a great challenge, but according to Blumenthal, she could not have chosen better actors – Patrick Dickson and John O’Hare, a pair who have been working together for over 20 years – to bring the difficult production to life.
Pitched at those for whom the Holocaust is a personal tale, as well as for those who still question how this could happen in civilised society, the play is much more than a Jewish story. Showing what happens when people stop being liberal, and stop thinking for themselves, the work promises to be a powerful experience, confronting and cautionary, and a must see.
Feb 28-Mar 24, The Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Dr, Bondi Beach, $21-33, 1300 241 167, rocksurfers.org
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