Amsterdam
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 3M or F
- ISBN: 9781848428898
"Everyone knows, all of them... that when all's said and done, she is no more than a fig leaf hiding the thing everyone else would be much happier never having to look at."
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
One day a mysterious unpaid gas bill from 1944 arrives. It awakens unsettling feelings of collective identity, foreignness and alienation. Stories of a devastating past are compellingly reconstructed to try and make sense of the present.
First seen at the Haifa Theater, Israel, in 2018, Amsterdam is a strikingly original, audacious thriller by Maya Arad Yasur. It received its UK premiere, in this English translation by Eran Edry, at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2019, directed by Matthew Xia, in a co-production between the Orange Tree, Actors Touring Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.
REVIEWS:
"A fascinating, multilayered play."
The Stage
" An intense, meta-theatrical play about collective guilt and invisible otherhood."
WhatsOnStage
Characters
- Casting: 3M or F
- Casting Attributes: Flexible casting
- Casting Notes: Amsterdam is written for a minimum of three performers. Lines of dialogue are unassigned in the script, so there is great flexibility over casting.
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An Israeli violinist. Living in her trendy canal-side Amsterdam apartment. Nine months pregnant. |
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