Drama

Storyteller - Brian Brown

The Magic Almond from Melanesia

The Witty Joker from Azerbaijan

The DewDrop Princess from China

After a Nazi program known as Kristallnacht, in which thousands of Jewish businesses and institutions were destroyed and Jews were assaulted, killed, and 30,000 herded into concentration camps, the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany was formed. Between 1938 and 1939, nearly 10,000 unaccompanied children rode trains out of Germany to freedom in Britain, America, or Paraguay. At one point, seven hundred children arrived in Britain every week, their passports altered so that all the boys were Jacob and the girls Sarah, their ages ranging from four to sixteen. Once the war with Britain began, the trains stopped. Most of the children never saw their parents again.

Evelyn, An English middle-class woman, in her fifties

Eva, Evelyn's younger self, a Jewish-German becoming increasingly English

Helga, A German-Jewish woman, Eva/Evelyn's mother

Lil, Eva/Evelyn's foster mother

Faith, Evelyn's only child, in her early twenties

The Ratcatcher, A mythical character who also plays the Nazi Border Official, the English Organizer, the Postman, and the Station Guard