Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

The road to Auschwitz

Theatre: Lotte’s Journey, Cloud Nine, Joe Guy

issue 10 November 2007

Theatre: Lotte’s Journey, Cloud Nine, Joe Guy

Beware of plays that open on trains trundling through Europe in the 1940s. You know where they’re heading. The strength of Candida Cave’s new work, Lotte’s Journey, is that it evades cliché by telling the passengers’ stories in reverse.

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