Staging the Holocaust : The Shoah in Drama and Performance (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction Claude Schumacher; 1. Holocaust theatre and the problem of justice Robert Skloot; 2. The power and limits of the metaphor of survivors' testimony Hank Greenspan; 3. On the fantastic in Holocaust performances Freddie Rokem; 4. The Holocaust experience through theatrical profanation Gad Kaynar; 5. Ben Hecht's pageant-drama: A Flag is Born Atay Citron; 6. Theatrical interpretation of the Shoah: image and counter-image Dan Laor; 7. Inadequate memories: the survivor in plays by Mann, Kesselman, Lebow and Baitz Alvin Goldfarb; 8. Performing a Holocaust play in Warsaw in 1963 Seth Wolitz; 9. Reality and illusion in the Theresienstadt cabaret Roy Kift; 10. Liliane Atlan's Un Opera pour Terezin Yehuda Moraly; 11. History, utopia and the concentration camp in Gatti's early plays John Ireland; 12. Armand Gatti and the silence of the 1059 days of Auschwitz Dorothy Knowles; 13. Charlotte Delbo: theatre as a means of survival Claude Schumacher; 14. Primo Levi's stage version of Se questo e un uomo Helga Finter; 15. Heinar Kipphardt's Brother Eichmann Alexander Stillmark; 16. George Tabori's mourning work in Jubilaum Anat Feinberg; 17. Thomas Bernhard, Jews, Heldenplatz Jeanette R. Malkin; 18. Select bibliography of Holocaust plays, 1933?1997 Alvin Goldfarb; Select bibliography; Index.