The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1: Four Plays (Theatre of the Holocaust)

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. Annotation 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, theater and Holocaust studies have undergone astonishing transformations. In Volume 2, Skloot presents and comments upon six exciting plays that acknowledge the most recent theatrical forms in our postmodern age. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved Volume 2: "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 acknowledging the most recent theatrical forms in our post-modern age."--Publisher's description This second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays that acknowledge the theatrical forms of the postmodern age. "This is real theatre in the real sense of the word: eternal and universal."--WorldLiterature Today"Deeply moving, forceful, remarkable."-Detroit Jewish News"I applaud the publication of this collection."-Jewish Currents Содерж.: Resort 76/ Shimon Wincelberg. Throne of straw/ Harold a. Edith Lieberman. The cannibals/George Tabori. Who will carry the world/ Charlotte Delbo. v. 1. Four plays v. 2. Six plays.