Rosa and Ben Feigel are a cosmopolitan progressive, dynamic, inter-racial North London couple. She’s the daughter of black South African exiles, he is Jewish- the son of a man who escaped on Kindertransport. Their adored teenage son Oliver - full of a political conviction his parents have encouraged - decides to hide a vulnerable person, an asylum-seeking teenager, in their home. When Ben and Rosa find out, they realise they are faced with just two options: turn the child over to the authorities knowing that he will be sent back to a dangerous country, or help him to hide and endanger themselves.

A bitter argument erupts between the Feigels about the morality of the law, the limits of empathy, what we will do to protect those we love and what we might sacrifice for strangers. Rosa and Ben are forced to grapple with what this reveals about their marriage and how it tests their image of themselves.

HOLD STILL is a portrait of a long-term marriage and of as a family shaped by intergenerational trauma in the midst of a contemporary crisis.

Nadia’s latest play debuted at Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre in November 2022 to sold out audiences and excellent reviews. It was similarly received at SA’s National Atrs Festival in July 2023 and will next be seen at the WoordFees Festival in October 2023.