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Performing Captivity, Performing Escape – Cabarets and Plays from the TerezÃn/Theresienstadt Ghetto
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Performing Captivity, Performing Escape – Cabarets and Plays from the TerezÃn/Theresienstadt Ghetto
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A meticulously researched book that collects sixteen playscripts
written by European Jews imprisoned in the TerezÃn ghetto in the
Czech Republic during the Holocaust. Â The concentration camp
and Jewish ghetto at TerezÃn, or Theresienstadt, in what is now
the Czech Republic, was a site of enormous suffering, fear, and
death. But amid this horrific period, there was also a thriving and
desperately vibrant cultural life. While the children’s drawings
and musical pieces created in the ghetto have become justly famous,
the prisoners’ theatrical works, though a lesser-known aspect of
their artistic endeavors, deserves serious attention as well.
 Performing Captivity, Performing Escape collects eleven
theatrical texts—cabaret songs and sketches, historical and verse
dramas, puppet plays, and a Purim play—written by Czech and
Austrian Jews. Together these works reveal the wide range of ways
in which the prisoners engaged with and escaped from life in the
ghetto through performance. The anthology opens with an insightful
prologue by novelist Ivan KlÃma, who was interned in the ghetto as
a child and contains a detailed introduction by editor Lisa
Peschel about the pre-war theatrical influences and wartime
conditions that inspired the theater of the ghetto. The array of
theatrical forms collected in this anthology speaks of the
prisoners’ persistence of hope in a harrowing time and will be a
moving read for students and scholars of the Holocaust. Â
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Lisa Peschel
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Pages: |
444 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80309-202-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-80309-202-5 |
Barcode: |
9781803092027 |
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