Hey if you're going to hide 12 Jews and one baby during World War II, where would you hide them?  A high ranking Nazi's house... where else?  And that's exactly what Irena Gut Opdyke did.  She was already beaten and gang raped by Soviet soldiers, but after the Nazi's took over Poland, she became the housekeeper of a Nazi Major.  She befriend some Jewish people, and then hid them throughout the war in the Major's cellar.  Very Sun Tzu's Art of War thing to do.  this is a women that kept her story to herself until one evening while living in Los Angeles (and the story on how she got there, is a play all by itself), got a call from a student making random calls for a school project and asked her "do you believe the Holocaust was real?"  At that point she went on and on about her story to this person, totally surprising her daughter who had no idea about her WWII life.  Anyways that parts not in the play, the play is about the hiding of these people, and making an absurd situation "normal".    

You just have to see the play eventhough there are only four more performaces left.  If you don't you can find Irena's book on Amazon Ephman bets.  Whatever, Tovah Feldshuh is awesome as Irena.  She's awesome at whatever she does.  Hey, she has the longest running one women play in Broadway history.  She plays this character Ephman imagines as a spitting image of the real Irena.  So Ephman felt that he was watching the real deal.  She just seemed to be so optimistic under amazingly absurd circumstances.  Crazy standing ovation for her.  Thomas Ryan played Major Rugemer.  Again, another solid performace in this play.  Thomas was really good playing this pathetic Nazi Major.  Ephman especially liked his "drunk scene".  There really wasn't a moment in the play that drifted in and out of naration that Ephman did not like.  No surpise that this run has been sold out!!!