Staging the holocaust : the Shoah in drama and performance
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Staging the holocaust : the Shoah in drama and performance
(Cambridge studies in modern theatre)
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'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.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction Claude Schumacher
- 1. Holocaust theatre and the problem of justice Robert Skloot
- 2. The power and limits of the metaphor of survivors' testimony Hank Greenspan
- 3. On the fantastic in Holocaust performances Freddie Rokem
- 4. The Holocaust experience through theatrical profanation Gad Kaynar
- 5. Ben Hecht's pageant-drama: A Flag is Born Atay Citron
- 6. Theatrical interpretation of the Shoah: image and counter-image Dan Laor
- 7. Inadequate memories: the survivor in plays by Mann, Kesselman, Lebow and Baitz Alvin Goldfarb
- 8. Performing a Holocaust play in Warsaw in 1963 Seth Wolitz
- 9. Reality and illusion in the Theresienstadt cabaret Roy Kift
- 10. Liliane Atlan's Un Opera pour Terezin Yehuda Moraly
- 11. History, utopia and the concentration camp in Gatti's early plays John Ireland
- 12. Armand Gatti and the silence of the 1059 days of Auschwitz Dorothy Knowles
- 13. Charlotte Delbo: theatre as a means of survival Claude Schumacher
- 14. Primo Levi's stage version of Se questo e un uomo Helga Finter
- 15. Heinar Kipphardt's Brother Eichmann Alexander Stillmark
- 16. George Tabori's mourning work in Jubilaum Anat Feinberg
- 17. Thomas Bernhard, Jews, Heldenplatz Jeanette R. Malkin
- 18. Select bibliography of Holocaust plays, 1933-1997 Alvin Goldfarb
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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