Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) [Hardcover]

Claude Schumacher (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521624150 | ISBN-13: 978-0521624152 | Publication Date: October 13, 1998

This book describes and analyzes theater productions performed in Israel, America, Poland, France, Italy and Germany that deal with the Holocaust. The collected essays trace the development of the realistic/documentary stagings of the 1950s-1970s through to today's very controversial avant-garde shows. This is the first book that deals with Holocaust plays "in performance," and provides many previously unpublished drawings and documents, as well as an important descriptive bibliography.

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"...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

Book Description

This book describes and analyses theatre productions performed in Israel, America, Poland, France, Italy and Germany which deal with the Holocaust. The collected essays trace the development of the realistic/documentary stagings of the 1950s-1970s through to today's very controversial avant-garde shows. This is the first book that deals with Holocaust plays 'in performance', and provides many previously unpublished drawings and documents, as well as an important descriptive bibliography.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 372 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521624150
• ISBN-13: 978-0521624152
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars History and cultivation, August 11, 2006

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This review is from: Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) (Hardcover)

The book gives a really exploration of that drama may do with history. And particullary the so difficult history of the Shoah.
The book has a very good knowledge of theatre of Israel and of New York. It's really a very interessant exploration. And the book has also a pertinent approach of the tragedy of the Shah.