Set in the summer of 1964 in New Jersey, the play is a bitter-sweet comedy suffused by the weight of memory. At Café Paris Esther Rosenzweig, a post World War Two Hungarian immigrant, meets her new acquaintance, the five times married Irene Bloom, for cool drinks on a hot afternoon. Esther discovers that the quixotic Irene has set up her on a blind date with her cousin Philip Gold, a rich and reticent widower. Inadvertently prompted by the meeting with Philip, Esther reluctantly retraces her buried past: a time in which she believe Philip plays a significant role, even though he is certain they have never met before. As they draw closer, Esther is finally able to identify Philip as the American soldier who kept her alive when her camp was liberated, as she lingered in the shadow-lands between life and death. Almost twenty years later, is the man who saved her, a man Esther swore to find if she lived, the one she has met in Atlantic City? Atlantic City Rendezous received a number of staged readings in the 1990s: at FirstStage in Hollywood; at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in Detroit, and for WriteAct in Hollywood. It is awaiting its world premiere!
2.50 GBP
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