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Signs of Life—A Holocaust Drama with Music
The true story of the Czech ghetto Terezín, renamed by Hitler, Theresienstadt, in his bid to fool the world and to hide the truth about what he was actually doing to the Jews. The “City for Jews” disguised the facts with a façade of beautification to fool the Red Cross inspectors—populating the city with artists, writers, musicians and scholars forced into lying. The alternative: being sent to Auschwitz.
Format: Musical
Cast Size:7M/2F
Notes:
Composer Joel Derfner, lyricist Len Schiff and librettist Peter Ullian.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Amas Musical Theatre, NYC at the Marjorie Deane Little Theater, 2010.
Amas Musical Theatre, NYC at the Marjorie Deane Little Theater, 2010.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
See the Signs of Life website.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | The Ghettos | Theater During Holocaust
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