Respected judge and Holocaust scholar David Lewin nears the end of his life, slipping in a morphine haze between the present and ghostly visits from his parents in their younger forms, fleeing Nazi Germany and Lithuania in the late 1930s. These moments carry him back to the narrow escapes that shaped his family’s story and made his own life possible.
Spanning generations, the play explores justice, memory, and how to say goodbye.
Stephanie’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector preserves Gogol's sharp satire of corruption, bureaucratic cowardice, and the absurdity of power…themes that haven't exactly lost their relevance.
The adaptation is available for licensing and production, and is well-suited for theater companies, academic institutions, and schools looking for a stageable comedy with a large cast and outrageous characters.