A drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat and not just because there are Nazis invited to dinner
French playwright Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s multi-award-winning World War II drama has it all: tension, laughter and an unexpected central dilemma. Now, for the first time in London, the English language version by Jeremy Sams is playing at Park Theatre.
The setting is Paris, 1942. Joseph Haffmann is a successful Jewish jeweller with his own shop, but since the Nazis occupied Paris, his very existence has been threatened. He’s managed to get his wife and four children to safety in Switzerland, but for the sake of his livelihood, he’s made the dangerous decision to stay in Paris. Desperate to stay off the occupiers’ radar, he cedes the business over to his gentile apprentice Pierre Vigneau, whilst he takes refuge in the cellar beneath the shop.
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