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The Singer of Shanghai
This play, co-written with Kayla Owens, Kayli Perrine and Christian Yoder, narrates the story of Ida Abraham as she got her family out of Germany to Shanghai after Kristallnacht. Written by students at Valparaiso University under the direction of Innes and Ostoyich, it is based on interviews that Ostoyich conducted with living survivors of the hundreds of Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and, at a time when Europe closed its borders, were given sanctuary by the people of Shanghai.
Format: Radio play and live performance
Notes:
Link to radio play: www.youtube.com
Link to recording of the live performance: www.youtube.com
Also visit the website of Kari-Anne Innes: karianneinnes.weebly.com
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Premiered as a radio theatre broadcast, May 12, 2020. Live performance by high school students in Edinburgh, Scotland, January 31, 2023.
Premiered as a radio theatre broadcast, May 12, 2020. Live performance by high school students in Edinburgh, Scotland, January 31, 2023.
Original Source Material: Based on interviews with Jewish refugees.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Publisher:
The play has been published by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtät München and translated into German by Anton Hieke.
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