Thats not an easy balance to strike, as a writer or as an actor.
Best of all, they could be relied upon to be funny.
When the story begins, Ruths mother has been dead for a year.
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Ruth knows there is horror in that past but, equally, that this horror must never be discussed.
At the last, highly inconvenient moment, her father decides to join her.
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Thats the kind of thing Edek Rothwax does.
Father and daughter make a classic odd couple.
Ruth is not inclined to make friends.
You know these people: they have provided the laughs in TV family sitcoms since the form was invented.
Inevitably, the trip culminates with a visit to Auschwitz.
The sorry and pity of this place is so enormous that no mere story can contain it.
That was where his bed was.
I slept in the middle, says Fry, his voice even.
Nobody wanted to sleep in the middle; you could get crushed.
Treasure, however, never gets to grips with her submerged heritage of suffering.
