Eleanor’s Story: Life After War
Ingrid Garner
★★★★★ “A complete, stand-alone epic.” —Fringe Feed
Ingrid Garner, 12-Time Award Winning creator of ‘Eleanor's Story: An American Girl In Hitler's Germany’, delivers a fascinating sequel to her grandmother’s memoir. Eleanor came of age as an enemy alien caught in Nazi Berlin, but now upon her long-awaited return home, she struggles to navigate peaceful American society while haunted by war trauma, survivor’s guilt, and family separation.
In this show, PTSD is used as a theatrical device to contrast a plentiful America with flashbacks of a ravaged Berlin. Despite Eleanor’s newfound safety, an innocent sound or word can trigger a terrible recollection. While this story explores the difficulties of an American returning home after coming of age in a war-zone, her struggle to assimilate is all too familiar to today’s refugees from violence worldwide. The war may be over, but the battle within has just begun.
*It is not necessary to have seen the original show to enjoy this sequel.
Ingrid Garner, 12-Time Award Winning creator of ‘Eleanor's Story: An American Girl In Hitler's Germany’, delivers a fascinating sequel to her grandmother’s memoir. Eleanor came of age as an enemy alien caught in Nazi Berlin, but now upon her long-awaited return home, she struggles to navigate peaceful American society while haunted by war trauma, survivor’s guilt, and family separation.
In this show, PTSD is used as a theatrical device to contrast a plentiful America with flashbacks of a ravaged Berlin. Despite Eleanor’s newfound safety, an innocent sound or word can trigger a terrible recollection. While this story explores the difficulties of an American returning home after coming of age in a war-zone, her struggle to assimilate is all too familiar to today’s refugees from violence worldwide. The war may be over, but the battle within has just begun.
*It is not necessary to have seen the original show to enjoy this sequel.
