Adam’s Purim Party [מסיבת הפורים של אדם]

Holocaust survivors invite their relatives to a Purim party, where the survivors put on a play abut the miraculous survival of Jews in Ancient Persia; at the same time, they present stories of their camp experiences and their survival. Adam, one of the survivors, and who was a clown before the war, survived because he willingly served as the commandant’s dog.
Format: Drama
Notes:

A collective work created by the Neve Zedek Theatre Centre, founded in 1989, led by director Nola Chilton.

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Neve Zedek Theatre Centre, 1981
Original Source Material: Yoram Kaniuk's (1930–2013) novel Adam Resurrected (Adam ben- Kelev)
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew

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