

An edition of Rocket City, Alabam' (2010)
a play with songs of the American South
By Mark Saltzman
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
Samuel French
Language
eng
Pages
88
Description:
At the dawn of the Cold War, the early 1950s, a young, brash, Army major, Hamilton Pike, brings famed German rocket scientist and former Hitler employee Wernher Von Braun to Huntsville, Alabama, a cotton town selected to become America's "Rocket City." But Huntsville is a Jewish community over a century old. Sparks fly and tempters explode when Amy Lubin, the Jewish fiancée of local war hero Jed Kessler learns of Von Braun's Nazi past.
subjects: Drama, Jews, Drama (dramatic works by one author)
People: Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
Places: Huntsville (Ala.), Alabama