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Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan [Maman revient pauvre orphelin]
Jean-Claude Grumberg, “Three plays. ‘The Workroom’ (‘L’Atelier’, 1979), ‘On the Way to the Promised Land’ (‘Vers toi Terre promise’, 2006) and ‘Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan’ (‘Maman revient, pauvre orphelin’, 1994)”, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2021. See also: France 3, 29.12.1994, https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/cpc94010554/jean-claude-grumberg-maman-revient-pauvre-orphelin
Snapshot
Directed by Philippe Adrien; play by Jean-Claude Grumberg; Comédie-Française production; set and costumes by Goury; music by Ghédalia Tazartès; with Simon Eine, Alain Pralon, Catherine Hiegel... [et al.] Paris (France): Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, 11-15-1994.
Actes Sud Papiers 1993. Also in “Les courtes” Babel N° 159 (Coédition Actes-Sud, Labor, L’Aire, Leméac). In “Three pièces contemporaines”, textes et dossiers, La bibliothèque Gallimard, 2002. English version: “Three plays. ‘The Workroom’ (‘L’Atelier’, 1979), ‘On the Way to the Promised Land’ (‘Vers toi Terre promise’, 2006) and ‘Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan’ (‘Maman revient, pauvre orphelin’, 1994)”, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2021.
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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
Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.