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Shalom Baby " review by Lyn Gardner

Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonGermany in the 1930s and the Jewish Weissmann family are facing increasing hostility. Into their lives comes Ike, a black German, who becomes as much a member of the family as non-Jewish neighbour Aimon. Ike soon falls for the Weissmann daughter, Natalie, but the events of Kristallnacht lead to rupture between Aimon and the Weissmans, who cannot avoid deportation to Auschwitz.…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM on October 30, 2011

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