Mercury Theatre Wales

Béla Zsolt was an anti-establishment Hungarian-Jewish author and journalist. Labelled ‘decadent’ by his enemies, his output included poetry, countless articles and seven novels.

The protagonist in Nine Suitcases is a thinly disguised version of Zsolt himself. He presents us with a minimally fictionalised account of his own experience as a Hungarian Jew suffering Nazi and Hungarian Fascist persecution during WII.

Incarcerated in a Jewish ghetto in 1944, he became involved in an audacious but unlikely plan to escape deportation to Auschwitz.

Recommended suitable for 14 and over.

From the book by Béla Zsolt; translated by Ladislaus Löb.
Adapted for the stage and performed by David Prince.
Original music composed and performed by Bethan Morgan.
Directed by Lynn Hunter.