Staging the Holocaust

Staging the Holocaust
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.

Holocaust Drama

Holocaust Drama
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.

Holocaust Theater

Holocaust Theater
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.

Chaim's Love Song

Chaim's Love Song
Author: Marvin Chernoff
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2000
Genre: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN: 9780573627552

Tampa Bay Magazine

Tampa Bay Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1990-09
Genre:
ISBN:

Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.

Tampa Bay Magazine

Tampa Bay Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1990-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.

Theatre World 2006-2007 - The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre

Theatre World 2006-2007 - The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1557837287

(Theatre World). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is pleased to make this venerable continuing series complete by publishing Theatre World Volume 63 . Theatre World remains the authoritative pictorial and statistical record of the season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and for regional theatre companies. Volume 63 features Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spring Awakening , which also earned a Theatre World Award for actor Jonathan Groff. Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia captured the Best Play Tony Award, as well as Tonys for featured actors Billy Crudup and Jennifer Ehle. Frasier star David Hyde Pierce returned to his theatre roots to capture a Tony for Kander and Ebb's Curtains , and other highlights of the season include the Off-Broadway musical In the Heights as well as Passing Strange , which debuted at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Both have since transferred to Broadway and become critical and popular hits. As always, Theatre World 's outstanding features include: * An expanded section of professional regional productions from across the U.S. * The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway * Full coverage of the Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debuts * Expanded obituaries and a comprehensive index

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019
Author: Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476679789

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

The Best Plays of 1989-1990

The Best Plays of 1989-1990
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2000-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781557830906

Gathers highlights from the season's ten best plays and information on plays produced in the United States