Original Play Reading: Giovanni Is Here | Richmond

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A story of hope, kindness, courage, ands survival set during the Holocaust in wartime Rome, Giovanni Is Here recounts the story of Belle, a young, pregnant Jewish woman hidden from the enemy by a Catholic family until the liberation. Set in very close quarters, the hazards of war and the Nazi occupation of Italy play out as the Romano family strives for a sense of normalcy, while risking their lives concealing Belle and selling dresses handmade by her on the Black Market. The title, Giovanni Is Here, is the coded term used to alert Jews of an imminent German raid.

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