Have you ever wondered if you could be a hero? Is it a quality you are born with or something that you can learn? Worin is a one woman solo show about a Holocaust survivor’s daughter, Beth, who accompanies her mother, Ginger, on an epic journey into her past. They visit the town of Worin, where for the first time in over 70 years, Ginger will see the farm where she and her six siblings were hidden for two years during the height of the Nazi regime. An unexpected relationship develops between Beth and Arthur III, aka Gvoon, the grandson of the fruit farmers, Paula & Arthur Schmidt, who hid The Weber Children. Inspired by a ceremony that is taking place in the Gardens of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel, where Herr & Frau Schmidt are being granted an honor bestowed to non-Jews who committed courageous acts of heroism, risking their own lives to save Jews during WWII, Beth embarks on a quest to find out how people grapple with risk, courage, and complacency. Would you hide me? And would I hide you? These are questions that Beth unearths as she visits the milestones of her mother’s past, the extreme acts of social justice in Gvoon’s present and the inevitable and possible future of the next generation to come.
