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A Holocaust Cabaret: Re-making Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto

Edited by Lisa Peschel

Presents two scripts reconstructed in 2017 – one Australian, one South African – based on a satirical musical written in 1943 in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) Ghetto. Accompanying essays explore how each creative team engaged with the trauma and pleasure embedded in the original script to link their reconstructions with immediate political and social concerns.

Part I of the book comprises a series of essays about the original material and about each production. The essays, written by Peschel and key collaborators on each development team, explore the Terezín production and both reconstructions.

Part II comprises the scripts. Although the texts themselves are based on the same plot outline, detailed stage directions and illustrations make clear how each manifested its own themes.


Part of Intellect's Playtext series.
www.intellectbooks.com/a-holocaust-cabaret