The Passenger

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

'Perhaps their idea is to undress us carefully before killing us, so that our clothes won't be bloodstained and our banknotes ruined. Murder is carried out economically these days.' The Passenger is based on the novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. A terrifyingly absurd story of Otto Silbermann, a criminal on the run who hasn't committed a crime. Kristallnacht, Berlin, November 1938. The streets of Germany are an orgy of state-sanctioned violence. As Nazi storm troopers batter down his door, respected businessman Otto flees his home and finds himself plunged into a new world order, his life dissolved overnight. Betrayed by family, friends and colleagues, and desperately trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape his homeland that is no longer home...

Creatives/Company

Author: Nadya Menuhin
Book by: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Director: Tim Supple
Design: Hannah Schmidt
Producer: Tom Parsons Productions (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre)