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★★★★★ Financial Times

★★★★ Guardian

★★★★ Daily Express

'Makes gripping viewing... fierce and riveting' The Guardian

'A thoughtful and engaging play, very well performed, and directed' Daily Express

Written by A. Bodin Saphir

Directed by Kate Fahy

Design by William Fricker

Music and Sound by Sophie Cotton

Lighting by Emma Chapman

'Enthralling drama of politics and race, faith and facts' Financial Times

October, 1943. Seven and a half thousand Jews flee Denmark in fishermen’s boats, crossing the water to Sweden and to safety from the occupying Nazi regime. To some, a miracle rescue of biblical proportions. To others, the question remains: how did thousands of Jews slip through the grasp of the most powerful war machine ever assembled?