The Story

On the day Hitler assumes power, the German-Jewish Glickstein family come together for dinner. Most of them—like many Germans at the time—do not take the Nazis seriously. When Leah announces her plans to emigrate to Palestine, her family talks her down. But when Michael indicates he’s actually an admirer of the National Socialist Movement, the family is on the brink of being torn apart.

A deeply personal and intimate chamber play, The Last Supper also acts as a warning to a contemporary world in which populist demagogues are on the rise.