Evelyn, a middle-aged Englishwoman, is helping her daughter Faith to sort out things which the young woman may need when moving into a flat of her own. While they are searching for useful things in the attic, mother and daughter are heading for another confrontation. What Faith does not know is that Evelyn was once […]

Diane Samuels: “Kindertransport”   Spiel voll von Sehnsüchten (Salzburger Nachrichten, 26/04/2006) “…Eine berührend-beklemmende Episode jüngerer Zeitgeschichte beschreibt die Engländerin Diane Samuels in ihrem Theaterstück „Kindertransport“. Das Werk erinnert an das Schicksal tausender jüdischer Kinder, die durch Sondertransporte nach England vor den Nazis gerettet wurden. Nachgezeichnet ist es an einem erdachten, aber durchaus möglichen Fall, am […]

As a British teenager, Adrian Mole is an unrecognised intellectual and poet suffering the traumas of first love, the threat of parental divorce, problems at school, and spots. If only he could have his mom back home, a date with the popular Pandora, and a new, cool image, all might be well …