Staging History From the Shoah to Palestine : Three Plays and Essays on WWII and Its Aftermath

This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay. Acknowledgments Contents List of Images 1 Introduction Western Drama: From Social Concerns to Social Change Theatre in the University and Beyond 2 Staging the Shoah: The Persecution of Jews in France Under German Occupation Bearing Witness: Charlotte Delbo Armand Gatti and “Concentration Camp Culture” Liliane Atlan and the “Theatre of Cruelty” Children of Drancy: A Montage of Voices Children of Drancy Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading on the Shoah in France 3 Theatre of and About the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance Theatre as Resistance? The Question of Sartre Jeanne D’Arc in Occupied France: Claude Vermorel Turncoats and Angels: Henry de Montherlant and Gilles Segal Theatre About the Resistance: Jean-Claude Grumberg and Charlotte Delbo Art as Resistance: The Eagle and the Cactus The Eagle and the Cactus Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading on the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance, 1940–1944 4 Theatre of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Israeli Theatre—The Early Years Israeli Theatre After the Six-Day War (1967) Israeli Theatre After the Yom Kippur War (1973) Israeli Theatre and the Lebanon War (1982–1985) Israeli Theatre and the First Intifada (1987–1991) Israeli Theatre in the New Millennium The “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” on the International Stage Kafka in Palestine Bibliography: Sources and Further Reading on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Afterword Index