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A Terrible Truth, Volume Two: Anthology of Holocaust Drama
A Terrible Truth, Volume Two: Anthology of Holocaust Drama
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Last copy!
Edited by: Irene N. Watts Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 384 Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN-10: 0887547141 ISBN-13: 9780887547140
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About
the Book:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are
still available.
A Terrible Truth is
an anthology in two
separate volumes collecting plays dealing with the Holocaust. We look to the theatre to illuminate, to challenge, and to bring
spiritual understanding and consolation. Theatre, at its best,
embraces, enlightens, entertains, and makes us question how we live
and die. The plays in this anthology share a common thread, the
triumph of theatre to make us ask questions. To restore meaning and
bring insight to the memory of a terrible truth.
A Terrible Truth, Volume II: Anthology of
Holocaust Drama includes:
Good by the UK
playwright C.P. Taylor. How
does a good man turn toward the unthinkable? A German novelist and
university professor must rationalize his decision to join the Nazi
Party and participate in its destructive practices and face the
effects these choices have on his friendship with a Jewish physician.
In this expressionistic play with music, C.P. Taylor
poses questions that remain all too
familiar in today's political landscape. Especially recommended for
school and contest use. (Premiered
in 1981 at the Donmar Warehouse in London; Cast: 4 female, 6
male)
None is Too Many by
the Canadian playwright Jason Sherman chronicles the attitude
of Canadian government and the impact of Canada's anti-Semitic
immigration policies toward Jewish refugees before, during and after
the Second World War. (Premiered in 1997 at Manitoba Theatre Centre
in Winnipeg; Cast: 1 female, 5 male) Playing for Time by
the legendary American playwright Arthur Miller. A searing drama of the
Holocaust – the remarkable, true story of how singer Fania Fénelon and a group of women created the Auschwitz
Women's Orchestra. This moving play deals with the complicated struggles of the women fighting for survival by playing to members of the SS, all the while knowing the fates of their fellow prisoners. As long as the makeshift orchestra continues to find favour,
its members will be spared the gas chambers. They are, quite
literally, playing for time. (Originally filmed for CBS television in
1980, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself, it premiered in
1985 at 1-Act Theatre in San Francisco; Cast: 17 female, 5 male, plus
extras)
Still the Night by
the Canadian playwright Theresa Tova. A celebration of
survival – the story of two young women who were separated from
their parents during Word War II, and wander through Poland,
pretending not to be Jewish. (Premiered in 1996 at Tapestry Music
Theatre in Toronto; Cast: 2 female, 3 musicians)
The Trials of John Demjanjuk
by the Canadian playwright Jonathan Garfinkel, music by Allen
Cole. In 1987 John Demjanjuk was accused of being Ivan the Terrible
of Treblinka and brought to trial. In 1988 he was sentenced to hang,
but in 1993, acquitted. In 2002 his American citizenship was revoked
– for the second time. Was he guilty? And of what exactly? The
Trials of John Demjanjuk probes the nature of guilt and the need for
retribution as the circus of the public trial transforms the
courtroom into cabaret, lawyers into Nazis, and survivors into
singing emcees. (Premiered in 2004 at the Noman Rothstein Theatre in
Vancouver; Cast: 1 female, 5 male)
About the Editor:
Irene N. Watts is a
German-born Canadian writer and educator. She studied at University
College Cardiff and arrived in Canada in 1968. Since 1977, she has
been a resident of B.C. She is the founding director of Citadel
Wheels and Wings, Alberta and Neptune Theatre Company, Nova Scotia.
She served as the program director of the first International
Vancouver Children's Festival. The author of 11 plays for young
people, she has taught drama and creative writing in all parts of
Canada.
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