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The Terezin Promise
Playbook.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
From 1942 to 1945 over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, a stopping-off place, for hundreds of thousands on their way to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Most of these perished at Auschwitz. But one child, Raja Englanderova, after the liberation, returned to Prague. This play is an imaginative creation of her story from poems, diaries, letters, journals, drawings and pictures.
No Alterations
None
No Fading Star
There is documentary evidence in the testimony of Jews, who as children, were saved from the Holocaust through the efforts of religious women in the convents of Germany and other Nazi occupied countries...This play is dedicated to these nameless women and the good people who worked with them to write some few bright words in the dark history of the Holocaust.
Microdramas
In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself (August Strindberg, Maurice Maeterlinck, F. T. Marinetti, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Caryl Churchill), the book explores four episodes in the history of very short theater, all characterized by the self-conscious embrace of brevity. The story moves from the birth of the modernist microdrama in French little theaters in the 1880s, to the explicit worship of speed in Italian Futurist synthetic...
Performing Captivity, Performing Escape
The concentration camp and Jewish ghetto at Theresienstadt was a site of enormous suffering, fear and death, but in the midst of this was a thriving and desperately vibrant cultural life. This book collects eleven theatrical texts - cabaret songs and sketches, historical and verse dramas, puppet plays and a Purim play - written by Czech and Austrian Jews
