“Amsterdam is full of rewards… a moving excavation of the tensions surging under the city’s streets.” Alice Saville, Time Out
“Amsterdam is timely and hauntingly reminds us that the past exists in the present. In failing to acknowledge our darkest history we risk repeating it.” Lyn Gardner, Stage Door
“Brilliantly directed… It's performed with vitality by a cast of four… How we pay the debts of history is one of the many rich thematic questions Yasur tackles.” Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard
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.
An Israeli violinist. Living in her trendy canal-side Amsterdam apartment. Nine months pregnant.
One day a mysterious unpaid gas bill from 1944 arrives.
Slid her an envelope right under the door and then just walked away.
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.
The UK premiere of a strikingly original, audacious thriller.
Maya Arad Yasur is a prize-winning Israeli playwright, whose work has been produced worldwide.
This is Matthew Xia’s first production as Artistic Director of ATC, co-producers of the critically acclaimed Winter Solstice at the OT. He recently directed Blood Knot at the Orange Tree Theatre.
“Matthew Xia’s staging exerts a real, raw power” Time Out on Blood Knot
“I think that being a foreigner is an experience that every person should have”
Read an interview with playwright Maya Arad Yasur in The Jewish Chronicle
“What better time to premiere a play for the Europe of the present, triggered by the Europe of the past.”
Read an article written by director Matthew Xia on The Arts Desk
An Orange Tree Theatre, Actors Touring Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth production
Running time: about 1 hour 20 minutes, no interval
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Publicity photo by rollingspoke.com
Production photos by Helen Murray
NarratorFiston Barek
Hara Yannas
Daniel Abelson
Michal Horowicz
