'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.
| ISBN: | 9780521035200 |
| Publication date: | 14th December 2006 |
| Author: | Claude Schumacher |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 372 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies |
'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.
Staging the Holocaust features in the following genres: Theatre studies
Staging the Holocaust is available in Paperback, Hardback
Staging the Holocaust was written by Claude Schumacher and published by Cambridge University Press
Staging the Holocaust has 372 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre series
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