Teshuvah (The Return) [Play]

TESHUVAH (The Return) is based on a delving into my Jewish family history. It explores the agony suffered when family members change the faith of generations.

Cast 2 - 1F / 1M

Setting The Cafeteria at London’s Victoria Railway Station / 1st December 1986

It is the 1980s. A sister and brother meet in the cafeteria at Victoria Railway Station. She is an Anglican nun; he a retired principle of a College of Theosophy. She has a secret to share with him that she knows will rock his foundations.

What are the bonds that tie them together? What are the twists of fate that have pulled them apart? Can the shame and pain of the past be healed?

Over their table hangs a tinsel attempt at Christmas. But the sister is dreaming of Chanukah and the fundamental truths that bind all religions together; while the brother is fighting back an unbearable anguish…

Hailing from Lithuania, they have only met a handful of times in the last 60 years. Will today’s rendezvous bring them closer? Or will it deepen the rift between them?
Why does it matter?