I am starring in The Passenger

6 Feb

The Passenger – Finborough Theatre

by Nadya Menuhin.
Based on the novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Directed by Tim Supple

10 February — 15 March 2025

‘Perhaps their idea is to undress us carefully before killing us, so that our clothes won’t be bloodstained and our banknotes ruined. Murder is carried out economically these days.’

The world premiere of a new adaptation.

Shot through with Hitchcockian tension, The Passenger is the terrifyingly absurd story of Otto Silbermann, a criminal on the run who hasn’t committed a crime. Directed by multi-award-winning former artistic director of The Young Vic, Tim Supple

Kristallnacht, Berlin, November 1938. The streets of Germany are an orgy of state-sanctioned violence.

As Nazi storm troopers batter down his door, respected businessman Otto flees his home and finds himself plunged into a new world order, his life dissolved overnight.

Betrayed by family, friends and colleagues, and desperately trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape his homeland that is no longer home…

23 year old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938 in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht. Rediscovered 70 years later, The Passenger became an international hit, was translated into over twenty languages and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller more than 80 years after it was originally published.

Presented by Toby Parsons Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre.