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Who Will Carry the Word? [Qui rapportera ces paroles?]
Author(s): Charlotte Delbo
Based upon the actual experiences of Charlotte Delbo, Who Will Carry The Word? dramatizes the lives of women struggling to survive in an Auschwitz barracks. The women hope that the strongest of them will survive to bear witness to the horrors they experienced. The play is presented with almost no scenery, with the camp life evoked through almost poetic descriptions, and recreated by the two survivors.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:22F
Notes:
For additional reading, see Gene A. Plunka, Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 76–83. See also, Alvin Goldfarb Greek Tragedy and the Nazi Concentration Camps, Exchange (Fall 1980), pp. 1–10.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Center Stage, NY 2008, Red Fern Theatre Company.
Center Stage, NY 2008, Red Fern Theatre Company.
Original Source Material: Charlotte Delbo's own experience of Auschwitz.
Nationality of Author: French
Original Language: French
Publisher:
In The Theatre of Revolt, Robert Skloot, ed., University of Wisconsin Press, 1982; and The Theatre of the Holocaust, v. 1, Robert Skloot, ed., University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust | Concentration and Extermination Camps
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