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How We Danced While We Burned
Author(s): Kenneth Bernard
Structured like a cabaret style performance, the play is set in a Holocaust Third Reich Beer Hall in Hell, where a man is tried for an unknown crime and the emcee in the beer hall is a Nazi oppressor.
Format: Cabaret drama
Notes:
See Robert Skloot, The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of the Holocaust (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), pp. 60–63.
Snapshot
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Asylum Arts, 1990
Experience(s) Chronicled: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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