Mandate Memories
Lionel Goldstein's new drama takes about a year, in audience-time, to come to the point. The delay tactics are so thick they play like mere filler. Once it does, about half-way through, the script wakes up and puts human faces on a rarely told story: the British Palestine Mandate and the birth of the Nation of Israel. Eighty-year-old Gustav is wracked with double guilt: of all his family only he survived the Holocaust; he also committed a crime, he feels, beyond forgiveness. He has come to Jane Stirling's Berkshire home not to atone, but to bear witness. Rosina Reynolds and Apollo Dukakis make a finely-matched pair as Jane and Gustav. Jane's intelligence blooms like the flower in her garden. Dukakis gets through the initial side-tracking, as best he can, and delivers ultimate revelations with deeply felt conviction.
Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, May 4, 2014
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm & 7pm |
| Wednesdays, 7pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 2pm & 8pm |