Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom
Year: 2025
Produced by: National Theatre
Creative Team: Written by Davis Lan | Directed by Stephen Daldry | Set Designer: Miriam Buether | Costume Designer: Nicky Gillibrand | Lighting Designer: James Fancombe | Sound Designer: Gareth Fry | Composer: Paul Englishby | Movement Director: Paul McGill | Fight and Intimacy Director: Maisie Carter | Casting Director: Naomi Downham | Dialect and Language Coach: Victoria Woodward | Voice Coach: Cathleen McCarron | Associate Director: Jane Moriarty | Staff Director: Julia Levai
Synopsis: This is an historical drama with a fictionalized story about a man name Thomas, that was stolen as a child out of his Eastern European country by the Nazis during World War 2. When Thomas is found, he is taken under the care of a U.N. relief nurse, Ruth, who tries to find Thomas’s parents. The characters are fictional, but the play is based on historical circumstances from real life events that were researched and gathered from journalist and historian, Gitta Sereny. Sereny gathered up as much information after the war had ended, for historical purposes.
Source: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/the-land-of-the-living/