The lucky ones
By: Charlotte Eilenberg
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Children of Holocaust survivors; Drama
Description: Some years after fleeing Nazi Germany, two related Jewish families bought a country cottage jointly owned between them. Thirteen years later both families are happily settled in North London and they've decided to sell the cottage. Leo is keen to raise the asking price in order to repay the debt to their father, who is now seriously ill. But when the buyer, Lisa, turns out to be also from Berlin, he demands an extraordinary condition of sale at the last minute. Decades later, Leo's son Daniel and Bruno's daughter Beth talk with Lisa, confronting the legacy that their parents have left them. 'The Lucky Ones', about broken dreams and hopes for a new identity, premiered in 2002 at the Hampstead Theatre, London.