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Overview
Synopsis
Old Heart tells the story of black GI Tom Johnson who joins forces with 24-year-old Sarah van Praag and the Dutch resistance to smuggle food and supplies from the liberated south across Nazi lines to starving cities in the northern Netherlands. Their brief love affair collapses at the war’s end, and sixty years later Johnson, about to be sent off to assisted living by his family, disappears on a flight to Amsterdam. While his children desperately try to locate him, Johnson is determined to track down Sarah.
Show Information
- Book
- Roger Rapoport
- Category
- Play
- Age Guidance
- Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
- Number of Acts
- 3
- First Produced
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Historical/Biographical
- Settings
- Period, Contemporary, Multiple Settings
- Time & Place
- Detroit, MI, Veldhoven, Netherlands, 2006-2007, 1944-1946
- Cast Size
- large
- Ideal For
- Community Theatre, College/University, Diverse Cast, Large Cast, Mostly Female Cast, Includes Elderly, Mature Adult, Young Adult, Adult Characters
Context
Plot
Characters
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Non-singer |
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Lead |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Lead |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Lead |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Lead |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Either Gender |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Either Gender |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Either Gender |
Silent |
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Supporting |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Either Gender |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Either Gender |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Either Gender |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Female |
Non-singer |
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Supporting |
Male |
Non-singer |
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Featured |
Either Gender |
Silent |
Songs
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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Key Terms
Hostility and prejudice against Jewish people.
Officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, it was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945.
The war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945.
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