Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in 1920 in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettoes and a ship called The Exodus, and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavoured nights in Miami Beach. The play is a sharply drawn portrait of a feisty Jewish woman and a moving reminder of some of the even's that shaped the twentieth century. Rose premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 1999 starring Olympia Dukakis.