Rocket City, Alabam’
Productions
Alabama Shakespeare Festival ● Skokie Theater (Chicago)
In the early 1950’s, at the dawn of the Cold War, Hitler’s top rocket engineers were quietly slipped into the U.S. to create an American missile program.
The spot selected by the U.S. Army was Huntsville, Alabama, a Southern town which happened to be home to a century-old Jewish community.
In this fictionalized account of true events, Army major Hamilton Pike Jr. oversees a team headed by Hitler’s rocket designer, Wernher Von Braun. As the Germans are carefully assimilated into Huntsville, passionate objections arise from some townspeople…
Playwright: Mark Saltzman
“A thought-provoking exploration of the complexities of human nature. With sensitivity and humor, it delves into the moral dilemmas of idealism vs. practicality, revenge vs. forgiveness.”
— Blair Ingenthron, Broadway World