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Rosa & Leo
Author(s): Adam Szudrich
Five decades after secretly falling in love in a Nazi concentration camp, Rosa and Leo rediscover each other on opposite sides of the world.
Format: One Act Play
Cast Size:1M,1W
Character breakdown:
Rosa – Every one of her 75 years and speaks with a heavy Polish accent. She looks like she’s just returned from a funeral: black clothes, black mood. Her wispy hair
unruly, unkept.
Leo – It’s hard to believe that this 75-year-old was the Polish Casanova who could famously get any woman. Not that he’s stopped believing it. His accent is pure New York. He wears a dapper suit, bow tie, suspenders.
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Winner of Best International Play @ The International Festival of Ten-Minute Plays, Lost & Found @ Raze The Space (USA) June 2020
Winner of Best International Play @ The International Festival of Ten-Minute Plays, Lost & Found @ Raze The Space (USA) June 2020
Nationality of Author: Australian
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust | Reactions to the Holocaust | Liberation | Concentration and Extermination Camps
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The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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