Peter Abeles

Otto ...the Play Peter Abeles

Synopsis of Scenes ACT I: scene i - The year 2000, inside Peter's memories; scene ii - The living and dining room in the Abeles apartment at 9 Heiligenstadterstrasse, Vienna, Austria, March 12, 1938; scene iii - The year 2000; scene iv - Ernst Abeles' office, Vienna, 1938; scene v - Inside the Abeles apartment, a short time later; scene vi - The year 2000; scene vii - Outside the Abeles' apartment building at 9 Heiligenstadterstrasse, a short time after Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938; scene viii - The year 2000; scene ix - The Abeles living room, a little more than a week after scene vii; scene x -The Abeles living room, during the late fall of 1938. ACT II: scene i - The year 2000 and the Abeles' living room, the morning after ACT I, scene x; scene ii - The year 2000; scene iii - The Jewish cemetery. Vienna, late 1938; scene iv - The Abeles' living room, January 1939; scene v - The year 2000 and the Abeles' apartment, sometime after March 1939; scene vi - The year 2000 and an examination room at the American Embassy, Vienna, Austria, 1939; scene vii - The Abeles' living room, November 1939 and the year 2000; scene viii - A few days later, aboard a train traveling through Germany for Holland, and the year 2000; scene ix - On the deck of the S. S. Rotterdam, a luxury Dutch ocean liner, and inside the Abeles' first class cabin, December 1939; scene x - The year 2000.