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| Author | : Gene A. Plunka |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2009-04-02 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139477412 |
The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.
| Author | : Michael Taub |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780815626732 |
This collection brings together for the first time the dramatic responses to the Holocaust from two generations of Israel playwrights. Leah Goldberg, Aharon Megged, and Ben Zion Tomer survived the Holocaust and settled in Israel after the war. Their plays explore survival issues and the concepts of heroism and of good and evil in a candid, straightforward manner.
| Author | : Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2000-09-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1466837624 |
The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize—the Palme d'Or. Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.
| Author | : Robert Skloot |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 1988-04-13 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0299116638 |
Offering an informed critical approach, Skloot discusses more than two dozen plays and one film that confront the issues and stories of the Holocaust.
| Author | : Rebecca Rovit |
| Publisher | : PAJ Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781555540753 |
"Compelling and even poignant accounts of ghetto performances."--Ulrich Baer, German Studies Review
| Author | : Gene A. Plunka |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2017-12-22 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 135159608X |
Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics. Holocaust Theater addresses a selection of contemporary plays about the Holocaust, examining how collective and individual trauma is represented in dramatic texts, and considering the ways in which spectators might be swayed viscerally, intellectually, and emotionally by witnessing such representations onstage. Drawing on interviews with a number of the playwrights alongside psychoanalytic studies of survivor trauma, this volume seeks to foster understanding of the traumatic effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater’s capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma.
| Author | : Jon Bridgman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Claude Schumacher |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1998-09-24 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521624152 |
'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.
| Author | : Leanne Lieberman |
| Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2013-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459801105 |
Lauren Yanofsky doesn't want to be Jewish anymore. Her father, a noted Holocaust historian, keeps giving her Holocaust memoirs to read, and her mother doesn't understand why Lauren hates the idea of Jewish youth camps and family vacations to Holocaust memorials. But when Lauren sees some of her friends, including Jesse, a cute boy she likes, playing Nazi war games, she is faced with a terrible choice: betray her friends or betray her heritage. Told with engaging humor, Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust isn't simply about making tough moral choices. It's about a smart, funny, passionate girl caught up in the turmoil of bad-hair days, family friction, changing friendships, love, and, yes, the Holocaust.
| Author | : Robert Skloot |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1983-01-21 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0299090736 |
This volume contains these four plays: Resort 76 by Shimon Wincelberg Will the relentless oppression of the starving workers in a ghetto factory destroy their faith in God? Their love of life? Their ability to resist? If a cat is more valuable than a human being, have hope and goodness been eliminated from the world? A moving and terrifying melodrama. Throne of Straw by Harold and Edith Lieberman Through the career of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Lodz, Poland Judenrat, we come to understand the horror of “choiceless choice,” of how giving up some to save others was the worst nightmare for those who sought the responsibilities of ghetto leadership. An epic play with music and song. The Cannibals by George Tabori The children of murder victims assemble to enact ritually the destruction of their fathers in the presence of two survivors. As the sons become their fathers, the most profound ethical questions of the Holocaust are raised concerning the limits of humanity in a world of absolute evil. A daring tragicomedy. Who Will Carry the Word? by Charlotte Delbo (translated by Cynthia Haft) In the austere, degraded setting of a concentration camp, twenty-two French women attempt to keep their sanity and hope as, one by one, they fall victim to the Nazi terror. Will anyone believe the story of the survivors? A poetic drama of resistance and witness.
