Skipper Next to God
- Dates
- Jan 4 – Mar 27, 1948
- Performances
- 93
About
Skipper Next to God is a 1940s play written by Dutch author Jan de Hartog. It is a melodrama with three acts, a single setting, and fifteen characters. The action of the play spans two months time during 1938. The story concerns the captain of a Dutch merchant ship who has taken on 146 Jewish refugee passengers from Hamburg, and struggles to find a port in the New World that will accept them. The play was first performed for underground audiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Its first public and English-language performance was at Windsor, England during July 1945. It was revived in London by Anthony Hawtrey during November 1945, and had its Australian premiere in Melbourne during April 1947. Cheryl Crawford then sponsored the play in Manhattan in early January 1948 as...