Ghetto
Ghetto Author: Joshua Sobol
First Performance: 1984, Haifa, Israel
Published: 1984
First English Translation: 1986
Genre: Drama in 21 scenes; Hebrew prose and songs
Setting: Vilna Ghetto, Eastern Poland, 1941–3; Tel Aviv, 1983
Cast: 15m, 4f, extras
In 1983, Srulik, a former ventriloquist, reminisces about the Vilna Ghetto. As deportees arrive in the Ghetto, Kittel, a Nazi officer, orders that these talented Jews should stage shows in their own theatre. Despite being reminded by the librarian Kruk of the tastelessness of performing where 50,000 Jews were recently massacred, Gens, the chief of the Jewish police, welcomes the theatre as a way of saving some Jews. Weiskopf, an entrepreneur, gives employment to 150 Jews, mending and cleaning German uniforms. The actors rehearse a scene, in...
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