A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
Requiem in Terezin [ראקוויאם בגטו]
Author(s): Nava Shean
An optimistic piece on the power of music, art and non-violent resistance. A narrator recounts how a young conductor, Rafael Shechter, decides to perform Verdi’s Requiem in the Terezin concentration camp. The narrator is also a survivor from the camp and tells of her own experiences, how they met, and the fight against inhuman conditions.
Format: Monodrama
Cast Size:1M or F
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Original or Prominent Production:
Haifa Theater, 1981
Haifa Theater, 1981
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
Experience(s) Chronicled: Theater During Holocaust | Women and the Holocaust | Allegoric or Metaphoric Representations | Concentration and Extermination Camps
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