RAILROAD
Performed
by the
Transversal Theatre Company at UC Irvine,
the Romanian National Theatre of Cluj
and the Sibiu (Romania) International Theatre Festival
May-June 2006
This production of a world premiere of a play by Bryan Reynolds
received high acclaim in all three locales and a standing ovation
at its final performance at the Sibiu Festival. The play treats
a Jewish family in Germany during the Holocaust: While being
transported to Auschwitz in a boxcar, the Jews have their passports
stolen by a Nazi family seeking to emigrate, under alias of
Jewish names, to America; sixty years later, an American family
twice-descended from the Nazi one celebrates the Fourth of July
in New York. All three families (mother, father, son and daughter
in each case) are played by the same four actors, without costume
or setting changes.
