The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2: Six Plays

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. H. I. D. (Hess Is Dead), Howard Brenton A dramatic encounter with the ghosts that haunt modern Europe. Camp Comedy, Roy Kift The career of the noted actor Kurt Gerron who was ordered by the Nazis to a film of a concentration camp in order to deceive the Red Cross. Dreams of Anne Frank, Bernard Kops The most famous Holocaust victim uses her extraordinary, artistic imagination to free herself from her attic prison through dreams of surrealistic wonder. The Model Apartment, Donald Margulies A sad journey of an elderly couple retiring to Florida turns into wi..

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