About the Show

The world premiere of Dmitry Glukhovsky's exploration of the life of a Holocaust survivor.

Yosef Kaufman was a Holocaust survivor from Łódź, Poland, who was continued to haunted by his wartime experiences as he tries to build a new future in 1960’s Brooklyn.

'The White Factory' follows Kaufman's journey from the ghetto of 1940s Poland to America in the 1960s, where the possibility of a new life is tested to the limit by the remnants of his past.

'The White Factory' is the result of a collaboration between Ukrainian, Russian and British creatives, led by writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the bestselling Metro2033 franchise, and is directed Maxim Didenko.

Critic Reviews (3)

“Whilst the text can meander on occasions and the first act in particular would benefit from some more focus, there are moments that hit home with devastating power...This is brave and exciting work from the relatively new Marylebone Theatre and is definitely worth a trip out of the West End for a visit.”
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“Set dazzlingly, hauntingly, in a clinical white box blasted clean with LED one moment, plunged into blackness or a fiery glow the next, the ‘white factory’ refers to a church-turned-workshop where the Elder of the ghetto’s Judenrat attempted to make his community so indispensable in producing Nazi essentials – from uniform buttons to freshly stuffed pillows – that the Nazis would spare them from Auschwitz.”
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“At the heart of this play, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky and directed by Maxim Didenko, is a terrible story based on Second World War truths. It’s set between 1939 and 1944 in the Łódź Ghetto of Poland...What happened in Łódź is a neglected part of history, but here its retelling is let down by a baggy script from Russian writer Glukhovsky and a misguided production.”
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Cast and creative team