Also staying at the Farrellys’ home are a Romanian aristocrat, Count Teck de Brancovis, and his wife Marthe, who was a childhood friend of Sara’s. The Mullers are accompanied by their three children, Joshua, Babette, and Bodo. Sara’s husband Kurt Muller is an engineer of German birth, who has spent much of his life fighting against the rise of fascism. Fanny is excited about Sara’s return from Europe although it quickly becomes clear that she is also the type of mother who controls everything – planning and controlling everyone’s lives down to the last detail, although in a humorous and gracious way. The play touches on several serious themes –how marriages rarely turn out to be what the happy couples expect, what war does to people, how it changes them, the compromises they make just to get by and stay alive, how even children are involved and must grow up quickly.įanny has been semi-estranged from her daughter whom she hasn’t seen or spoken to in twenty years, though there have been occasional letters. At first, it seems that the play is about classic family struggles, childhood tensions that have evolved into strained relations between parents and adult children, Slowly it becomes clear that there is much more going on. The play takes place in an elegant residence in the Washington suburbs, where socialite Fanny Farrelly and her son David, a lawyer, are awaiting the arrival of Fanny’s daughter Sara and her family. David and Sara, brother and sister reunited in “Watch on the Rhine” by Lillian Hellman at Church Hill Theatre – Photo by Steve Atkinson
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