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Rosa & Leo

Author(s): Adam Szudrich
Five decades after secretly falling in love in a Nazi concentration camp, Rosa and Leo rediscover each other on opposite sides of the world.
Format: One Act Play
Cast Size:1M,1W
Character breakdown:

Rosa – Every one of her 75 years and speaks with a heavy Polish accent. She looks like she’s just returned from a funeral: black clothes, black mood. Her wispy hair
unruly, unkept.

Leo – It’s hard to believe that this 75-year-old was the Polish Casanova who could famously get any woman. Not that he’s stopped believing it. His accent is pure New York. He wears a dapper suit, bow tie, suspenders.

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Winner of Best International Play @ The International Festival of Ten-Minute Plays, Lost & Found @ Raze The Space (USA) June 2020
Nationality of Author: Australian
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust | Reactions to the Holocaust | Liberation

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