Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance

Book Overview

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 This is the first book that deals with Holocaust plays in performance, and provides many previously unpublished drawings and documents, as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521624150
• ISBN13: 9780521624152
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"