![]() ![]() ![]() All she wants to do is stay in her attic bedroom and brood. Thirteen year old Katie is an unwilling summer guest in the Victorian home of her Halifax grandparents. As she leaves, Ernst gives her a gift that renews her hope for the future, and helps her see that all people are not the same. ![]() Marianne s escape to Canada is arranged through the Kindertransporte underground rescue mission. She reveals to Marianne that her father is not away on business as Marianne has been led to believe, but is hiding from the Gestapo after escaping a Na*zi prison camp where he was nearly beaten to death. Kohn wants to shield and protect Marianne from the truth of the danger they are in, the time for honesty has come. When Ernst discovers Marianne is Jewish and she finds that he belongs to the Hitler Youth they quarrel bitterly, leaving Marianne with little hope for the friendship. On her way home she makes an unexpected friend, Ernst. Young Marianne Kohn arrives a few minutes late to school one morning to find that Jewish students are no longer permitted to attend. ![]() CAST: 7 2 F, 2 M, 2 G, 1B or 3 minimum 2 F, 1 M with doubling. Set in Germany in the days immediately following the Na*zi fostered Night of the Broken Glass November 9, 1938, GOODBYE MARIANNE is powerful theatre based on the author’s childhood experience in Na*zi Germany. A true story of hope in a time of terror, this play won the Jessie Award of Canada after a successful premiere by the Carousel Theatre in Vancouver. ![]()
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