And Our Ashes Will Be Scattered By the Wind…

Author(s): Ilya Chlaki
Two old men are sharing a room in a retirement home in Germany, Joseph and Hans, a Jew and a German. In the game that they made up together, where Joseph plays the part of Hans, and Hans plays Joseph. Tonight they decided to take the game to another level and completely open up to each other. Each comes to the point that has been torturing the other all through his life, the real reason why they started this unusual little game: Joseph believes he betrayed his beloved father by failing to save him from the concentration camp. Hans, in turn, is haunted by the episode with the Jewish girl.
Format: Full Length Drama (without intermission)
Cast Size:2M
Character breakdown:

A play for two characters.

Notes:

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Snapshot

Original Source Material: Germany
Nationality of Author: Russian
Original Language: Russian
Publisher:

Publisher and publication dates: The final round in the playwright competition “Jakob-Michael-Reinhold-Lenz-Preis” der Stadt Jena 2000, Germany
2004 Book, “New Plays” (Russian)
2012 Book “Theater” (Russian)
2014 Book “Vier Theaterstuecke” (German)
2015 Drei Masken Verlag (German)

Production Rights Holder:

Production rights holder: Drei Masken Verlag, Germany
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