Lodestar Quarterly

Issue 5 • Spring 2003 • Featured Writer • Drama

Walking to Buchenwald

Avery Crozier

Characters, Setting, Production Notes

Cast of Characters

Schiller
30s to 40s, director of strategic planning for a natural history museum

Arjay
30s to 40s, a painter and graphic designer

Mildred
70s, retired elementary school teacher, Schiller's mother

Roger
70s, retired theatre professor, Schiller's father

Others (played by one actor)

Museum Guide (London)
Host (Bath)
Visitor (Cornwall)
Waiter (Paris)
Student (Berlin)
Nude (Berlin)
Minnesotan (Weimar)
Schlitzen (Weimar)
Bus Driver (Buchenwald)

Note: Schiller, Arjay, and the Others may be male or female.

Setting

The play takes in place in various locations in England, France, and Germany. It is the present. All locations should be delineated by lighting on a very simple set suggestive of stone. Five chairs and a table might suffice.

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Avery Crozier (averycrozier@yahoo.com) is the author of Eat the Runt, which was honored in the 2001 Top 10 Off Broadway Plays listing by the New York Daily News. In 1996, she was one of the writers for Endangered Species, a play-length monologue presented at Interact Theatre in North Hollywood as part of its Interactivity festival. In Walking to Buchenwald, Avery's second full-length play, he once again exploits the temporal nature of theatre with non-gender-specific roles that can be cast male or female.

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