The Smell Of Almonds

By Nigel Holloway
 
Yitzhak   Neil Davies
Pushka (the cat) & the Prosecutor r Andrew Hopkins
Esther Janet Holloway
Rachel Clare Hovey
   

 

Synopsis

A play in one act charting the dark and unexpected secrets which hide behind the shattered and disjointed memories and imaginings of an old man and his cat in Nazi-occupied Holland. The play tells the story of Yitzhak, a migrant Jewish worker in the bulb fields near Amsterdam, his cat, Pushka, his son, Ibrahim, and his wife, Esther.

Despite the apparently placid exterior of a man in the autumn of his life, Yitzhak’s past has been scarred by violent and tragic events, both internal and external, which rise at random to the surface of his deteriorating understanding of where and who he is - and what he may have done.

 What is the nature of truth, justice, and the price of survival?