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Love Looks for an Apartment
Author(s): Jerzy Jurandot
A musical “love-swapping” comedy in which two couples are forced to share an apartment. Jerzy Jurandot was a poet, dramatist, satirist and songwriter, and one of the leaders of pre-war cabaret life in Warsaw. In 1940, he and his wife, actress Stefania Grodzienska, were interned in the Warsaw Ghetto. During their internment, Jurandot continued working. He organized performances to large audiences in need of distraction from the reality of their situation.
Format: Musical comedy
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Performed at the Femina theater in the Warsaw Ghetto on January 16, 1942.
Performed at the Femina theater in the Warsaw Ghetto on January 16, 1942.
Nationality of Author: Polish
Original Language: Polish
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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