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La Sinagoga de San Pablo
Author(s): David A. Crespy
A play about the Holocaust in Veria, Greece, exploring a visitation of St. Paul at the Barbouta Synagogue during the German Occupation of Greece in 1943, and the deportation of the Jewish community of Veria. La Singoga de San Pablo conflates two unique moments in time—a moment of peace and reflection in the missionary pilgrimages of St. Paul, and the moment when the Jews of Veria were herded like animals in their own synagogue and sent to their deaths via cattle cars to Auschwitz. The play is a dialogue between good and evil, between the message of faith, hope, and love, and the horrors of hatred and genocide.
Format: Full-length play
Cast Size: 3M/3F
Notes:
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Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Missouri Playwrights Workshop, University of Missouri Department of Theatre; February 10, 2024.
Missouri Playwrights Workshop, University of Missouri Department of Theatre; February 10, 2024.
Original Source Material: Family history; interviews during 2023 Fulbright Scholar Program.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
David A. Crespy
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | The Ghettos | Resistance | Reactions to the Holocaust
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