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Mania [מניה]
Author(s): Shay Kadimi
Mania is an 80-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, who was subjected to Dr. Mengele’s experiments. Mania is a widow and mother of two who has schizophrenia. She wants to die, but before that, she wants to tell her story—what it was like there, what she went through, and what the Nazis made her do.
Format: Monodrama
Cast Size: 1F (the character is female, but the show was written and performed by a male actor)
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: Hasifriah Theater, 2003
Original Language: Hebrew
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Nazi War Crimes and Judgement | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust