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Cabaret in Captivity


Conceived by Edward Einhorn

Developed and directed by Edward Einhorn and Jenny Lee Mitchell

Performing this year at the Jersey City Theater Center,
located at 165 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302

Saturday, May 18, at 9pm

Songs and sketches written in Terezín/Theresienstadt, from Lisa Peschel's anthology Performing Captivity, Performing Escape and other sources. 

Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates

Original work written by Armin Berg, Robert Dauber, Sergei Dreznin, Grigory Flidlider, Hans Hofer, Vitezslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Jaroslav Jezek, Gideon Klein, Frantisek Kowanitz, Josef Lustig, Felix Porges, Frida Rosenthal, Erwin Schulhoff, Leo Strauss, Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg, Karel Svenk, Victor Ullmann, and Ilse Weber

With: Craig Anderson, Mel DeLancey, Seth Gilman, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Yvonne Roen, and Katarina Vizina

Musical direction and piano accompaniment: Maria Dessena

Violin: Tiffaney Lane

Part of Remembrance Readings program of National Jewish Theater Foundation—Holocaust Theater International Initiative

Running time: 70 minutes

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