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Love and Exile
Author(s): Hannah Rittner
Poldi is a Holocaust survivor living in Chicago after World War II. She holds onto the memory of her dead child, Ella. Torn between two worlds, the dead and the living, Poldi struggles to tell Ella the truth about her father. Finally she is put on trial by Sarah the matriarch of the Jews.
Format: Full-length play
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: Work-shopped with the NYU Musical Theater Department, and The Bechdel Group
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations