Afternoon Play - 19/01/2007

My Blue Piano Jerusalem, 1945. When eccentric German poet Else Lasker-Schüler is evicted by her landlady, she is forced to wander the city's troubled streets. In a series of strange encounters, she meets the angel Gabriel and the ghost of a chimpanzee murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Tragi-comic drama by Marty Ross. Lasker-Schüle ...... Ida Schuster Muhsam ...... Paul Young Dressmaker ...... Joanna Tope Moskewitch ...... Simon Tait Miss Levi ...... Gowan Calder Private ...... Nick Underwood Sgt Major/Gabriel ...... Mark McDonnell Rabbi ...... John Shedden.