The Passenger

About the show

Aboard a postwar ocean liner, Lisa recognizes a passenger who recalls Marta, a prisoner she once guarded at Auschwitz, and reveals her hidden past to her husband Walter. The action shifts between the ship and the camp, where Lisa tries to control Marta and her fiancé Tadeusz. Tadeusz refuses to play the Kommandant’s requested waltz and instead performs Bach’s Chaconne before being taken to his death; the final encounter between Lisa and Marta remains ambiguous.