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