The play covers the narrative of a Jewish family in Vienna over a period of 50 years and is set in the drawing room of this wealthy, predominantly Jewish family.

Scene 1, set in 1899 is set for a Christmas dinner where all things Jewish and Viennese culture is discussed.

Scene 2 moves a year forward and covers their break up of an affair set against a Passover Seder.  Scene 3 just us 4 years forward and covers painfully an amputation of an are in World War 1 juxtaposed against a comedic circumcision .  Scene 4 brings us to 1938 brings the Nazis into the picture with there. Issuer of the family home.  The final scene of 1955 brings the survivors of the Holocaust back to the family home.  Only three members are alive and they mourn so many losses.  Here we are not so much mourning a lost world but bringing one tenderly back to life.

 I did think that there was too much historical exposition disguised as small talk.  I also thought that people and ideas moved so quickly that I didn’t have an ability to care for these people.  I just didn’t have the time to get to know them.

Warning do not have a cocktail before this production – – you will be left in the dust . . .