NURZUR ANSICHT NICHTFÜRVERTRIEBAUFFÜHRUNGEN DURCH MUSIKUNDBÜHNE

(Opening picture: We see the photograph from the Akershus pier, where GUNVOR HOFMO stands at right in the crowd looking at the ship SS DONAU is leaving. After a while the projection starts to live. THE PEOPLE leave the pier. GUNVOR is left alone. We hear the voice of RUTH:)

RUTH´S VOICE:

“I think it's just as well that it has come to this. Why shouldn´t we suffer when there is so much suffering?

Do not worry about me. I might not have switched with you.”

GUNVOR: On a rainy night like this you feel as if she´s returned, a Jewish girlfriend they killed, she whose body they burned along with thousands of others.

Act 1

Scene 1

(GUNVOR alone. She picks up a book from the floor. She opens it and reads:)

GUNVOR: