Room for Doubt

Author(s): Joel Shatzky
A highly respected Professor of German Literature at a prominent American university is confronted by his past, which conceals a terrifying secret he has hidden for decades. Accused of murder as a Nazi official in the Warsaw Ghetto by the son of one of his victims, he is forced to reveal a secret that would change his life, his son’s, and, most of all, his accusers.
Format: Drama

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Reading at New Yiddish Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2008.
Original Source Material: Earlier version known as Nazi and produced at Society Hill Playhouse, Philadelphia, 1982.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English

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