A Holocaust Cabaret : Re-Making Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto / edited by Lisa Peschel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peschel, Lisa, editor.

Series:

Issn Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish drama.

Theresienstadt (Concentration camp).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, IL : Intellect, [2023]

Summary:

Presents two scripts reconstructed in 2017 - one Australian, one South African - based on a satirical musical written in 1943 in the Terezin Ghetto. Accompanying essays explore how each creative team engaged with the original script to link their reconstructions with immediate political and social concerns. 29 col, 2 b/w illus.

Contents:

Cover

A Holocaust Cabaret

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Prologue

Introduction

1. ‘There must be some way to protect this young man’: Re-making Prince Bettliegend

2. Student Ethnographers in the Rehearsal Room: Witnessing Prinz Bettliegend

3. Singing Up the Past and Stompin’ with the Prinz: Jaroslav Ježek and the Music of Prinz Bettliegend

4. Conversation I: Prinz Bettliegend in Australia and Bearing the Gift Forward

5. Prinz Bettliegend in the Western Cape, South Africa: Permission to Play

6. Out of the Shadows: Notions of Memory and Remembrance

7. ‘Race’, Power … and Clowning: The Stellenbosch Cast Reflects

8. Conversation II: The Prinz and Pedagogy, Identity and Cultural Appropriation

9. Prince Bettliegend Performance Script: Australia, August 2017

10. Prinz Bettliegend Performance Script: Western Cape, South Africa,March 2018

Conclusion

Appendix: Plot Outline and Songs

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ISBN:

9781789388169

1789388163

9781789388152

1789388155