A woman's face is framed between blurred shoulders and hats, her red lips and anxious gaze catching the light.

Finborough Theatre2025

The Passenger - In Rehearsal

The Production

Nadya Menuhin’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s novel was presented by Toby Parsons Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre. Staged in the Finborough’s intimate space, the tense wartime thriller follows Otto Silbermann through Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.

26 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Tim Supple
Associate Director: Joseph Alford
Movement Director: Joseph Alford
Lighting Design: Mattis Larsen
Set & Costume Design: Hannah Schmidt
Sound Design: Joseph Alford
Commissioned by: Toby Parsons Productions
Photography: Steve Gregson

A man in a hat adjusts his tie while seen in a wall mirror, with his back blurred in the foreground.

A young man in a waistcoat and checked trousers sits alone on pale benches against a black stage, looking upward.

A man in a checked suit raises both arms while other figures crowd around him against the black stage.

A woman applies red lipstick while holding a compact mirror under bright dressing-room light.

A man in a fedora listens tensely to another hat-wearing figure seen from behind.

A man extends his hand over a small suitcase toward another man whose back fills the foreground.

A man in a dark overcoat and blue scarf sits beside a pale bench with a hat placed next to him.

A close portrait catches a man in a checked suit looking down with a troubled expression against black.

A man in a checked suit holds an old rotary telephone receiver while resting his hand on the phone.

In a bright white room, a woman faces a man in a checked suit while another suited man stands blurred behind them.

A seated man in a checked suit bends close to a woman in a patterned dress as they hold hands on her lap.

In a stark white room, a man points a pistol while a woman and an older man raise their hands.

Three figures cluster around an open suitcase, with one man pointing emphatically as a woman holds her head behind them.

An older man lunges over a tray in the foreground while a woman and a man struggle behind him.

Seen between seated figures, a grinning man stands in a white room and extends a small object in front of him.

A seated man presents small objects in both palms, with a woman blurred behind him in the white room.

Two men sit opposite each other over a chessboard on low tables, leaning into the game against black.

A man leans over a crowded chessboard, hands poised among the pieces as he looks upward.

A man in a fedora clutches a large black folder to his chest, staring out from the black stage.

An older man in a blue suit leans forward with animated hands, glasses low on his nose.

A woman in a patterned dress looks wide-eyed toward a blurred figure in the foreground against black.

A woman in gloves grips a man's blue scarf as they face each other in a tight black-background confrontation.

A woman in a patterned dress and a man in a hat lean close together in a brightly lit room.

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