A tragic story about friendship and a young boy’s curiousty
This adaptation was brought to the stage by the Children’s Touring Partnership and Angus Jackson.
Cameron Duncan as Bruno and Sam Peterson as Shmuel were wonderful as the young boys separated only by a barbed wire fence.
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The performance, while thought provoking, also provided humourous one liners letting the audience smile but not deferring from the overall message.
The closing words from Maria, the families maid, played by Rose Wyatt, sent chills through the audience as she said, ‘All this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again - not in this day and age’, as the realisation of what had happened to the young pair dawned upon Bruno’s parents.