Set in the departure lounge of an airport, the characters react in their different ways to the endless delays. They go back over their own lives and dance for us the feelings and experiences which have stayed with them. Performed with wit and zest by a highly polished group of older dancers, this visiting production is well worth catching. This play is devised by the ten performers with Pam Schweitzer and looks back over their lives through public history, social changes and, above all, personal memories. With songs and stories, the cast take us back to their births in the 1920s and early 30s, through their growing up years, their wartime experience, their working lives and the changing pattern of their family lives, right up to the present day.
Crowds gather to celebrate the new Millennium.
The cast of eleven players from 50 to 75 years old remember working class life, love, sex, rock'n'roll and the movies in the 1950s. With built-in translation, live music and spirited performances, this show is a joy to watch. Two hundred years ago a group of Germans dreamed of a better life and accepted the invitation of Katherine II, the Czarina of Russia, to settle as farmers in the Ukraine. During World War II their descendants were deported to work-camps in Kazakhstan and Siberia where they and their families settled, always dreaming of a better life in the Germany of their ancestors. In the 1990s some of their children and grandchildren have followed this dream.