Alexei Arbuzov: The Promise A Play by Nick Dear
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Overview: It’s the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel – the first practicing Jew ever to sit in a British Cabinet – dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine after 1800 years. However, his cousin, Edwin Montagu – also in the Cabinet – is implacably opposed to the idea, a conflict complicated by Montagu’s passion for the beautiful aristocrat, Venetia Stanley, a confidante of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.
Politics, religion and love collide with world-changing effect in this new play of political and sexual intrigue, and the origins of Israel.
In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers – Lika, Marat and Leondik – are thrown together. Losing everything from their past, they forge a new love that binds them and a new hope which keeps them alive: the promise of a better future.
Arbuzov’s classic of the 1960s is revived here in Nick Dear’s stunning adaptation for the Tricycle Theatre, London in 2002.
Genre: Fiction > Classic, Literary, Plays
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