A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past.

Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life...

Between 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels' seminal play, Kindertransport, imagines the fate of one such child. Now widely considered a modern classic, Kindertransport has been read and studied the world over.

Kindertransport won the 1992 Verity Bargate Award and was subsequently staged by the Soho Theatre Company at the Cockpit Theatre in London in 1993. It also won the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 1993.

Since its premiere the play has been revived several times. Watford Palace Theatre staged it in 1996, in a production that transferred to the West End. Renowned theatre company Shared Experience also revived the play to great acclaim for a regional tour in 2007.

This edition includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.

Kindertransport is a SET TEXT for GCSE English Literature (AQA) and AS/A-Level English Literature (WJEC).

About the Author
Diane Samuels is a playwright whose work has been widely produced. Her play Kindertransport won the Verity Bargate and Meyer-Whitworth Awards, and was first produced by the Soho Theatre Company in 1993. Subsequently it has been translated into many languages, performed in the West End, Off-Broadway and all over the world, and revived numerous times. Other plays include: The True-Life Fiction of Mata Hari (Watford Palace Theatre, 2002); Cinderella's Daughter (Trestle Theatre tour, 2005); 3 Sisters on Hope Street with Tracy-Ann Oberman (co-produced by Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse and Hampstead Theatres, 2008) and Poppy + George (Watford Palace Theatre, 2016). Her plays for younger audiences include One Hundred Million Footsteps for Quicksilver Theatre Company and Chalk Circle, Frankie's Monster and How to Beat a Giant at the Unicorn Theatre. Her musical, The A-Z of Mrs P, with music and lyrics by Gwyneth Herbert, had its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse in 2014. For BBC radio, plays include Swine, Doctor Y, Watch Out for Mister Stork, Hen Party, Tiger Wings and Psyche. She also works as a teacher/facilitator of creative writing to all ages.

Reviews

'Desperately harrowing... searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human'

* The Times *

'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature... presented with emotional clarity and intense sympathy'

* New Yorker *

'Samuels has written the best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships'

* Guardian *


Awards
Winner of Winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and Winner of the Verity Bargate Award 1992.



Book Information
ISBN 9781854595270
Author Diane Samuels
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Weight(grams) 131g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 8mm