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Summary

As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.  
 
In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land. 
 
Funding for this presentation is provided in part by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and The I. Michael Kasser Trust: Michael and Beth Kasser. 
 
Special thanks to Prof. Steve Hochstadt for his generosity in sharing his research and recordings to help create this work. 
 
Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2023. 
 
Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson 
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
 
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
 
Edyta Brychta as Lisbeth Loewenberg 
Michael Canavan as Herbert Greening  
Shannon Cochran as Ilse Greening 
Arye Gross as Gerard Kohbieter  
Anna Mathias as Trude Reisman  
Alan Shearman as Paul Reisman 
André Sogliuzzo as Ernest Culman 
Joanne Whalley as Melitta Colland. 
 
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
Recording Engineers, Mark Holden and Charles Carroll 
Sound Design by Mark Holden 
Editing and Mixing Engineer, Charles Carroll  
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Duration: about 1 hour (01:26:37)
Publishing date: 2023-10-03; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2023. Copyright Statment: —

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