Page to Stage: Inheritance by Wendy Graf

Nature or nurture? Nina Schwartzman is 19. She was adopted as a baby and raised in a loving Jewish family descended from Holocaust survivors. Then she learns who her birth parents were: an all-American college girl and an Indian Muslim immigrant who together carried out a deadly bombing. Guided by her lifelong imaginary friend, Anne Frank, and by the birth mother she never knew, Nina goes looking for a heritage she was taught to fear. Worlds collide in this moving new play about family, faith and identity. Can the stories we tell shape our reality, or distort it?