{"product_id":"staging-the-holocaust-the-shoah-in-drama-and-performance-hardback-9780521624152","title":"Staging the Holocaust; The Shoah in Drama and Performance (Hardback) 9780521624152","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStaging the Holocaust\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Shoah in Drama and Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book considers Holocaust plays 'in performance' and the legitimacy of presenting the Holocaust on the stage.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClaude Schumacher (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521624152, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 September 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages, 36 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.1 x 3 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...the exceptionally thought-provoking volume entitled, Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance...offers us chapter after chapter introducing and analyzing the work of various theatre artists from all over the world who have taken up this weighty challenge.\"    Dr. Diane Cypkin, Iyar-Sivan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Claude Schumacher\u003cbr\u003e 1. Holocaust theatre and the problem of justice Robert Skloot\u003cbr\u003e 2. The power and limits of the metaphor of survivors' testimony Hank Greenspan\u003cbr\u003e 3. On the fantastic in Holocaust performances Freddie Rokem\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Holocaust experience through theatrical profanation Gad Kaynar\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ben Hecht's pageant-drama: A Flag is Born Atay Citron\u003cbr\u003e 6. Theatrical interpretation of the Shoah: image and counter-image Dan Laor\u003cbr\u003e 7. Inadequate memories: the survivor in plays by Mann, Kesselman, Lebow and Baitz Alvin Goldfarb\u003cbr\u003e 8. Performing a Holocaust play in Warsaw in 1963 Seth Wolitz\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reality and illusion in the Theresienstadt cabaret Roy Kift\u003cbr\u003e 10. Liliane Atlan's Un Opéra pour Terezin Yehuda Moraly\u003cbr\u003e 11. History, utopia and the concentration camp in Gatti's early plays John Ireland\u003cbr\u003e 12. Armand Gatti and the silence of the 1059 days of Auschwitz Dorothy Knowles\u003cbr\u003e 13. Charlotte Delbo: theatre as a means of survival Claude Schumacher\u003cbr\u003e 14. Primo Levi's stage version of Se questo è un uomo Helga Finter\u003cbr\u003e 15. Heinar Kipphardt's Brother Eichmann Alexander Stillmark\u003cbr\u003e 16. George Tabori's mourning work in Jubiläum Anat Feinberg\u003cbr\u003e 17. Thomas Bernhard, Jews, Heldenplatz Jeanette R. Malkin\u003cbr\u003e 18. Select bibliography of Holocaust plays, 1933–1997 Alvin Goldfarb\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005133443352,"sku":"9780521624152","price":115.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521624152i_1f574479-39bf-4a28-b0f5-bceb1ae16b01.jpg?v=1691370675","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/staging-the-holocaust-the-shoah-in-drama-and-performance-hardback-9780521624152","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}