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Playing for Time [תזמורת על תנאי]
Author(s): Shmuel Hasfari
In the Auschwitz women’s camp there was an orchestra. Fania, a talented pianist and singer, becomes part of the orchestra. The play portrays the complex relationships between the orchestra members and the orchestra managers, and the way they deal with the horrors and hardship around them.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:10F/3M
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Beersheba Theater, 1987
Beersheba Theater, 1987
Original Source Material: Based on Fania Fénelon book The Musicians of Auschwitz, translated by Judith Landry.
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
Experience(s) Chronicled: Women and the Holocaust | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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