The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon

One-woman play charting the relationship between actress Penny Kreitzer (co-author of the play), the artist Charlotte Salomon, and Charlotte's stepmother Paula Salomon-Lindberg, a renowned contralto and co-founder of The Kulturbund, the Nazi sanctioned Jewish Theatre in Berlin.
Format: One-woman show
Cast Size:1F

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Original or Prominent Production:
Shakespeare & Company's newly reconfigured Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, a bomb shelter in Jerusalem, 2009
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:

David Bridel

Experience(s) Chronicled: Escape | Women and the Holocaust

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