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For This Moment Alone
For This Moment Alone
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Author: Marcia Kash Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 64 Pub. Date: 2014 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822228106 ISBN-13: 9780822228103 Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male
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About the Play:
For This Moment Alone is a full-length drama by Marcia
Kash. A moving drama about a family coping with the aftermath of
the holocaust. They are trying to get a family member to their home
in Toronto. It is not until they go to meet him at the train station
that they discover another man has assumed his identity and taken his
papers in order to escape war-torn Germany after WWII.
For This Moment Alone is set in Toronto in 1948. A Jewish
family, struggling to recover from the horrors of the war in Europe,
finally has cause to rejoice. Ruth is about to be reunited with the
only surviving member of her immediate family – her brother
Freddie. But when she goes to Union Station to meet him she is faced
with the most devastating shock of her young life – the brother she
was expecting turns out to be a stranger, an imposter holding her
brother's papers. Suddenly she and the family with whom she lives are
forced into a situation that is almost impossible to resolve. If they
abandon this displaced person they condemn him to more pain, more
suffering and risk the possibility of his being deported. For Joe,
the patriarch of the family, there is no choice: to save one live is
to save the world. He takes this enigmatic "Freddie" into
his home and calls upon himself and the other members of the
household to embark on finding some way of living with their
suspicions, their anger and their guilt. At what point do you stop
helping your fellow man? Should there be a line between "blood"
and "water"? Where does responsibility end? The play
follows the paths of Ruthie, Joe and the rest of the family as they
come to terms with what it means to accept, to forgive and to
survive.
For This Moment Alone premiered in 2011 at Theatre Aquarius
in Hamilton, Ontario. It was a critical and box-office success and
proved extremely popular with audiences, and has since been produced
in Canada and the United States.
Cast: 3 female, 4 male
What people say:
"A storyteller with a story to
tell who won't let you down…an evening of rich, traditional
theatre." — View Magazine
"There's plenty of prickly
thought in Kash's engaging drama…There's also warmth and wisdom
that lessens the anguish of the play's frightening conclusion. Let's
just say there are revelations that make you understand the length a
human being will go to survive the impossible." — Hamilton
Spectator
About the Playwright:
Marcia Kash is a Canadian theatre director, playwright and
actor. Her stage plays have been seen across Canada, the US and
Europe.
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Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes
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Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes
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Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes
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