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Waiting For Father
Author(s): Zuzana Justman
Brief synopsis: The semi-autobiographical play is set in the Terezin ghetto in 1944 and at Vassar College and in New York City in 1954. Helena, an idealistic survivor and college student, cannot accept the fact that her father died in Auschwitz. She struggles to make peace with her difficult mother, and is torn between two men, an ambitious filmmaker to whom she cannot bring herself to tell about her past and a charismatic emigre she knew in Terezin. The play contrasts her life in Terezin with her "idyllic" existence at Vassar. Each of the characters who were in Terezin deals with the past differently.
Format: Full Length Drama
Cast Size:4W,3M
Character breakdown:
Cast breakdown: Mimi Lieber, Beatrice Tulchin Dominic Comperatore, Betsy Howie, Patricia Noonan,
Lee Aaron Rosen, and Robert Zukerman.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Staged Reading at Czech Center NYC, NY
Staged Reading at Czech Center NYC, NY
Original Source Material: Personal experience
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Zuzana Justman
262 Central Park West, NY, NY 10024
Zuzanajustman@aol.com
Experience(s) Chronicled: The Ghettos | Women and the Holocaust | Reactions to the Holocaust | Survivors and Subsequent Generations
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