A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
Goodness
Author(s): Michael Redhill
Recounts a trip Redhill takes to Poland to find out more about his great-grandparents who died in the Holocaust. Thwarted by witnesses unwilling to talk, he returns home via London where he is introduced to Althea, a survivor of an unidentified late-20th-century genocide. He is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice. Goodness is a tense drama that explores genocide through an intricate knot of flashbacks.
Format: Autobiographical drama
Cast Size:6
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Winner of the Best of the Edinburgh Fringe prize.
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Original or Prominent Production:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2006; Produced by Canadian company Volcano at Performance Space 122, East Village, New York, 2007; Toronto Theatre Centre, September 2009.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2006; Produced by Canadian company Volcano at Performance Space 122, East Village, New York, 2007; Toronto Theatre Centre, September 2009.
Nationality of Author: Canadian
Original Language: English
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On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.
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