At The End of the World

by Zoe Senese-Grossberg

In 1938, after publishing an expose on American Nazism and facing a shocking act of anti-semitic violence, Julia and Edward move from Boston to New York City to stay with his cousin, Freyda. Over the course of two evenings and four years, the three are pulled apart and drawn together as they are forced to question identities, allegiances, and what it might mean to truly live at the end of the world.

In 1938, after publishing an expose on American Nazism and facing a shocking act of anti-semitic violence, Julia and Edward move from Boston to New York City to stay with his cousin, Freyda. Over the course of two evenings and four years, the three are pulled apart and drawn together as they are forced to question identities, allegiances, and what it might mean to truly live at the end of the world.

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At The End of the World

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  • Jordan Muschler: At The End of the World by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    A quiet play with deep empathy for its three characters and the emotional effects they all experience. It finds a unique and relevant perspective towards Holocaust, asking what the effects are of hearing about tragedy from afar while being unable to prevent it. It is a play that asks human, complicated questions which, somehow, are still as relevant as ever.

    A quiet play with deep empathy for its three characters and the emotional effects they all experience. It finds a unique and relevant perspective towards Holocaust, asking what the effects are of hearing about tragedy from afar while being unable to prevent it. It is a play that asks human, complicated questions which, somehow, are still as relevant as ever.

    ”

Character Information

  • Julia Ford
    An independent minded career woman, grounded in the WASPy gentility typical of New England, she is conflict averse but not a doormat, while she can be self destructive she is not hysterical
    late 20s-early 30s
    Female
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s,
      30s
  • Ezra Levinsky/Edward "Eddie" Llewelyn
    A pioneering young journalist who is desperate to be a hero, a seemingly self assured romantic, his instinct is to mask all that is wrong with both himself and the world as opposed to facing it head on
    mid-late 20s
    Jewish -- Ashkenazi
    Male
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s
  • Freyda Levinsky
    A passionate aspiring opera singer talkative and blunt, she is so used to rejection she is unable to fear what people think of her, while her heart is warm she comes off prickly and caustic, even cruel at times
    early-mid 20s
    Female
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s

Production History

  • University, Oberlin Student Theater Association, 2022