Address Unknown

The protagonists are two men who left Germany after World War II and established a successful art gallery in San Francisco, one Jewish and one Aryan.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:2M
Notes:

Edited for the theatre by Frank Dunlop, 2003

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
France, 2001; in Israel from 2002 (where it still runs); at the Promenade Theater in New York in 2004; the George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia; and Soho Theatre, London, 2013.
Original Source Material: Book: Address Unknown. The play begins in 1932 and ends in 1934—four years before the book was published, first in the fabled magazine Story and shortly afterwards as a book credited in The New York Times Book Review as “the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction.”
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Publisher:

Souvenir Press

Production Rights Holder:

Macnaughton Lord Representation

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