The first performance in Geneva of Max Frisch’s “Andorra,” described as a “four-hour violent attack on anti-Semitism” was hailed here today as a great success. The play, also described as a remarkable study of the position of the Jews in a hostile world, portrays for its Swiss and international public in Geneva the birth and development of such prejudice.
The climax is the murder of presumably Jewish heroes. Each of the witness and accomplices in the killings explains to the audience that while they deplore the crime, they cannot feel personally responsible for what happened beyond their will. The play is skillfully performed by top rank Swiss actors.
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