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Lebensraum
User Rating: 3.6 (1 votes)Author(s):
Israel Horovitz
Using a cast of three to play 40 sharply drawn characters, this bold work of penetrating intelligence is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite six million Jews to Germany and promise them citizenship and jobs. A resulting scenario unfolds that explores the effects of the policy on Jews and Gentiles with widely varying outlooks: an out-of-work Jewish dock worker from Massachusetts who brings his Irish wife and his son to Bremerhaven to start a new life, a survivor of Auschwitz who returns to find the woman who betrayed his family to the Nazis, a young German smitten by a Jewish American teenage girl, an unemployed German laborer and scores of others. The actors make quicksilver changes from one character to the next, occasionally using masks or character cut-outs to enhance the transformations. The logical progression of this artfully drawn script raises the terrifying possibility that history may repeat. "Powerful and touching. "-N.Y. Times.
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Genre(s): | Drama
| Time Period(s): | Contemporary 1950 -1990
| Play Type: | Play | Runtime: | Not Available | Acts: | Not Available | Set Complexity: | Simple | Set Information: | Not Available | Year First Published: | Not Available | Total Characters: | 3 | Male Characters: | 2 | Female Characters: | 1 | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | Cost: | $6.00 (Royalty $60-$40) Royalty/cost information prone to change. Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | Publisher: | Samuel French Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | ISBN: |
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