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Drawing Life
Author(s): Jocelyn Pook
Drawing Life, a Jewish Music Institute (JMI) production, is inspired by a collection of poems and drawings made by children imprisoned in Terezín. Based on original poems and drawings of the camp inmates, the performance is a dramatized song cycle featuring archive film and survivor testimony.
Format: Song cycle
Snapshot
Notes:
Jocelyn Pook (composer)
Emma Bernard (director and dramaturg)
Dragan Aleksic (visual artist)
Original or Prominent Production: Toynbee Theatre, London (school performance), January 22, 2016; The Barbican, London, January 30, 2016.
Original Source Material: Original poems and artwork of Terezín camp inmates.Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Contact the Jewish Music Institute, London.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps