Stopover

It is 1951. A Scandinavian Airlines flight from Calcutta to Rome has a regular stopover in Tel Aviv – and among the passengers this time is Hjalmar Schacht, former president of the Reichsbank, a man nicknamed "Hitler's banker". An hour's wait in the airport café transforms into a gripping drama about his life: he is recognized by David, a waiter who as a Jew spent years in concentration camps, and by Friederike Brecher, a Jew from Prostějov, and both want to hand Schacht over to Israeli authorities. Schacht defends himself by claiming he tried to moderate Hitler's policies and that he held no office after 1939.

The play Stopover revolves around questions of guilt, forgiveness, and justice – and every word may determine whether Friederike and David let Schacht fly on, or send him to a Tel Aviv cell.

The play is by Pavel Molek, known as an author of radio plays and dramatist; his production Monument for Hradiště was nominated for the Mark Ravenhill Prize. Pavel Molek works as a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court, teaches at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University, and is an author of specialized monographs.

The production is created in co-production by the Meeting Brno association and Divadlo Radost in collaboration with the Museum of the City of Brno and Arnoldova vila.