“Not one winter, but four had passed since the war had made Europe seem like one long trench of suffering.”
My new play, We Are the Body, opens with lights up on Elsie, who delivers the above lines, which are featured in a new video about the World Premiere released today by Burnt Thicket Theatre.
Her memories are the sounds of falling bombs as they hurtle through heaven, splintering factories, playgrounds, houses.
But it’s when the Communist regime seizes hold of Romania that a truly unimaginable reality unfolds in her life.
Watch this preview video that introduces Elsie who will be brought to life by Heather Pattengale in the World