Submitted by George Haber, Apr 11, 2007 08:32

The problem with the play is that we all know what happened, so there's no "surprise" in the developments and the show becomes simply an enactment of a historical event. More compelling as theater would have been a "story" (semi-fictional or even totally fictional), say, of someone trying to liberate a family in Europe and finding himself at odds with Kook, set against the backdrop of the historical drama unfolding. The play does a good job of depicting a historical moment, but doesn't work very well as a watchable drama. (In fact, an older woman, an avid theater-goer, told us she was so bored that she left at the intermission.)

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