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Exodus: The Shanghai Jews

By: Kate McAll
Narrated by: Edita Brychta, Michael Canavan, Shannon Cochran, Arye Gross, Anna Mathias, Alan Shearman, André Sogliuzzo, Joanne Whalley
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Publisher's summary

As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.

In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land.

Funding for this presentation is provided in part by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and The I. Michael Kasser Trust: Michael and Beth Kasser.

Special thanks to Prof. Steve Hochstadt for his generosity in sharing his research and recordings to help create this work.

Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2023.

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:

Edyta Brychta as Lisbeth Loewenberg

Michael Canavan as Herbert Greening

Shannon Cochran as Ilse Greening

Arye Gross as Gerard Kohbieter

Anna Mathias as Trude Reisman

Alan Shearman as Paul Reisman

André Sogliuzzo as Ernest Culman

Joanne Whalley as Melitta Colland.

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Recording Engineers: Mark Holden and Charles Carroll

Sound Design: Mark Holden

Editing and Mixing Engineer: Charles Carroll

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

©2023 Kate McAll (P)2023 L.A. Theatre Works

Critic reviews

"Those interested in the Holocaust have probably heard about the German and Austrian Jews who escaped to Shanghai but may not know much about their experiences. This play, recorded from a live performance by Los Angeles Theatre Works, draws on the testimony of some of the refugees in a montage created by Kate McAll to bring that episode to life. There's no point in calling out individual actors since they are all wonderful with accents and emotions. Each member of the cast takes on the persona of one of the Shanghai Jews, very effectively telling their story from the decision to go to Shanghai to the decision to leave when the war ends. Some listeners will want to keep a tissue handy." (AudioFIle; winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2023 Best Audiobook)

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