Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
This is an interesting play about the relationships between a mother and her daughter, from whom she has kept hidden the mystery of her past as a child survivor of the Kindertransport program from Germany to England. It also explores the relationship between the mother and her own mother, from whom she was separated as a child, due to the war. Their relationships are, in the main, portrayed as negative and strained. The play is passionate and raw in places and finishes more on a hope-less note, rather than a hope-filled one. All in all, not the best choice for second level students in my opinion (as a teacher) when there is such an abundance of optimistic, heroic stories connected with this subject out there (Holocaust separation and survival; Mother-daughter relationships).
Review by Emily S. English Teacher, Co.Dublin