05/23/2023 | Final Day? – The Musical (staged reading)

Berlin,1940s: Neighbors, childhood sweethearts then star-crossed lovers, Hannah and Johann, are torn apart by the war on the eve of their engagement. He is forced to follow his family’s military tradition and becomes a German Officer. Hannah and her family, who are Jewish, are taken to a secret laboratory. Their lives are spared because Hannah’s father was a valued scientist. He is threatened with torture and death to himself and his family if he refused to collaborate on “The Uranium project” (das Uranprojekt), Germany’s attempt to build a nuclear bomb.

For the next three years, Johann and Hannah are unaware if the other had survived. Then through a twist of fate, on the final day, they are reunited. Only hours remain before liberation. But the Kommandant has orders from Himmler to eliminate everything and everyone that were part of “The Uranium Project”. Their love story began before the war. It may continue or it may end on the Final Day…