The smell of almonds

A play in one act charting the dark and unexpected secrets which hide behind the disjointed memories and imaginings of an old man and his cat.

The play tells the story of Yitzhak, a migrant Jewish worker in the bulb fields near Amsterdam, his cat, Pushka, his son, Ibrahim, and his wife, Esther. Despite the apparently placid exterior of a man in the Autumn of his life, Yitzhak’s past has been dominated by violent and tragic events, both internal and external, which rise at random to the surface of his deteriorating understanding of where and who he is, and the events that brought him there.

What is the true nature of justice, and the price of survival?

This play was originally written for a writers' group at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.