The play ends with Hitler shoving these symbols into the oven as Charlotte leads the entire cast in a dance celebrating the life after the Holocaust. The six actor ensemble will play the following parts. Four characters play a multiple of parts, but they do not actually change character. Each actor will wear a certain outfit throughout the play, changing only hats and masks to indicate a change of character. The following comments are preliminary views of how I see the characters.
Interpretation is invited.
He is driven by a dream to correct an error of the past, but in his hubris must realize that he cannot rescue Charlotte. I see him as honest, loyal, stubborn, and disempowered by his own inability to choose. She is the central figure of the play, the crux upon which conscious change revolves. She is the survivor and a poet, a duality that she portrays in the face of the one dimensional history of the Holocaust. Her character has the zen of the survivor, one who has been to the edge of death and comes back with more life.