01 - 23 May 2009 York Theatre Royal presents
The White Crow (Eichmann in Jerusalem)
Written by Donald Freed Directed by Damian Cruden Designed by Lydia Denno Lighting design by Christopher Randall Audio Visual Design by Craig Vear
It was not a question of monsters or men, Doctor.
We were all - we are all monsters, who’ve been called human beings too soon.
Summer, 1960, a basement room in an Israeli police building.
Adolph Karl Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, deprived of his belt and shoelaces scurries around, frantic, manic, holding his trousers up as they slip from his prematurely aged body, searching through piles of documents and records in the holding cell.
Elaborate safeguards outside the door are unlocked, a middle-aged Israeli psychologist enters the room and a gripping confrontation begins.
Adolph Eichmann’s past has caught up with the present and now his destiny lies with the hangman. But did Eichmann have any humanity? Was he a “White Crow,” opposed to the “Final Solution”? After his role in the Holocaust can redemption ever be found for this
“desk-bound murderer”?
A gripping, tension filled, drama from award-winning playwright Donald Freed (Patient No.1) that is essential viewing in a world where despite the lessons of the Holocaust, genocide and ethnic cleansing still exist.
