The Infant Rat [L’Enfant-rat]

Author(s): Armand Gatti
L’Enfant Rat moves back and forth in chronology as it focuses on six survivors, identified only by numbers, of the same concentration camp work detail. The play both details the continuing relationship between these survivors, their past experiences and the continued impact of the camp experiences on them.
Format: Drama

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Created in a tent in Limoges, in the Festival of Francophone communities. directed by Hélène Chatelain, 1996
Nationality of Author: French
Original Language: French
Publisher:

Paris: Editions Verdier, 1991 (out of print)

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See armandgatti.org

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