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...
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Resort 76 by Shimon Wincelberg Will the relentless oppression of the starving workers in a g...
Offering an informed critical approach, Skloot discusses more than two dozen plays and one film that confront the issues and stories of the Holocaust.
Offering an informed critical approach, Skloot discusses more than two dozen plays and one film that confront the issues and stories of the Holocaust....
This second volume of The Theatre of the Holocaust, when combined with the first, represents the most significant and comprehensive international collection of plays on the Holocaust. Since the appearance of Volume 1 in 1982, theatre and Holocaust studies have undergone astonishing transformations. In Volume 2, Skloot presents six plays acknowleding the most recent theatrical forms in our post-modern age.
This second volume of The Theatre of the Holocaust, when combined with the first, represents the most significant and comprehensive internation...
In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays--three of which are published here for the first time--that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations: Armenians in Lorne Shirinian's "Exile in the Cradle," Cambodians in Catherine Filloux's "Silence of God," Bosnian Muslims in Kitty Felde's "A Patch of Earth," and Rwandan Tutsis in Erik Ehn's "Maria Kizito." Taken together, these four plays erase the boundaries of theatrical realism to present stories that probe the actions of the perpetrators and the...
In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays--three of which are published here for the first time--that fearlessly explore the...
