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Woman in the Moon
Author(s): Julia Pascal
A US journalist confronts Wernher von Braun about his Nazi past as he is about to help the Americans with research for the Moon Landing. The play has music and is an ensemble piece.
Format: One-act play
Running time: 75 minutes
Character breakdown
Wernher von Braun, the Nazi scientist
Dora, a Jewish survivor now a US journalist
Miss America
Pierre, French prisoner
Woman at the Paris Opera
Bomb victim in London, a child
Freddie, a prisoner
Rudi, a pilot
Irena, a Polish Jew in hiding
The Singer
British soldier.
Miss America
Pierre, French prisoner
Woman at the Paris Opera
Bomb victim in London, a child
Freddie, a prisoner
Rudi, a pilot
Irena, a Polish Jew in hiding
The Singer
British soldier.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: Arcola Theatre, London.
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Oberon Books. 2001 and reprint 2011.
Production Rights Holder:
United Agents, London.
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Deniers and Denial | European Jewry Before the Holocaust | Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Hiding | Liberation | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Reactions to the Holocaust | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Women and the Holocaust