Browse the Plays
-
- Experience Chronicled
- Allegoric or Metaphoric Representations
- Concentration and Extermination Camps
- Deniers and Denial
- Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
- European Jewry Before the Holocaust
- Escape
- The Ghettos
- Hiding
- Righteous Gentiles
- Rescue
- Resistance
- Liberation
- Nazi War Crimes and Judgement
- Other Victims of Nazi Persecution
- Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
- Survivors and Subsequent Generations
- Theater During Holocaust
- Women and the Holocaust
- Experience Chronicled
-
Recent Insights
- A Personal Welcome to the Holocaust Theater Catalog
- Many Questions and a Few Answers
- Comments to the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) Conference
- Honoring Elie and Marion Wiesel for Their Plays
- NJTF HTII becomes part of UM MILLER CENTER
- Theatrical Depictions of Survivor Stories
- On Resort 76: Jewish Drama and Putting the Audience Through a Difficult Evening By Bruce Cohen, MFA – the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
- NJTF Remembrance Readings Launched
- Online Women, Theatre, and the Holocaust Resource Handbook
- Almost Lost
In the Underworld
Author(s): Germaine Tillion
An English language production of the operetta Germaine Tillion secretly wrote of her experiences while in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. A dark comedy that focuses on life in the camp for its female prisoners.
Format: Operetta
Cast Size: 11F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: Russell Hall, University of Southern Maine, April 18–27, 2014.
Original Source Material: Germaine Tillion's original play in French, Le Verfügbar aux Enfers: Une opérette à Ravensbrück.Original Language: English language version
English Language Translator: Annie and Karl Bortnick