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Nine Suitcases
Author(s): David Prince
Adapted for stage from Béla Zsolt’s memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced laborer in the Ukraine during World War II. Describes the persecution and suffering of Hungarian Jews under Nazi and Hungarian Fascist rule, and depicts the lengths human beings will go in extreme circumstances to escape death.
Format: One-man play
Cast Size:1M
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, 2011; Mercury Theatre Wales, Cardiff, UK, 2012.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, 2011; Mercury Theatre Wales, Cardiff, UK, 2012.
Original Source Material: Adapted for theatre from the Holocaust memoirs of Béla Zsolt.
Nationality of Author: Welsh
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Nine Suitcases by Béla Zsolt is published by Random House.
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