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The Underground [במחתרת]
Author(s): Joshua Sobol
The third play in the Ghetto Vilna trilogy. During the Gulf war, an old man who was hit from the Iraqi attack arrives at a hospital. The young doctor who treats him finds a personal diary of a doctor who worked in Ghetto Vilna. The play is a flashback, and we see the underground secret hospital in the ghetto, with all the dilemmas that arise in such extreme circumstances: Who should get treatment? How to heal with very little supplies? What to do when an epidemic breaks out? And so on.
Format: Drama
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 1991
Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 1991
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
Publisher:
Or Am (Hebrew)
Syracuse University Press, 1996
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