
Ghetto
Joshua Sobol(Author)
Nick Hern Books (Publisher)
Published on 11. May 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-85459-021-3 (ISBN)
Description
The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Critics Circle Award for Best New Play.
Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination.
Joshua Sobol's play Ghetto was first performed at the Haifa Municipal Theatre in Israel and the Freie Volksbuehne, Berlin, in 1984. This English-language version, adapted by David Lan, was first performed in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London, in April 1989, directed by Nicholas Hytner.
This edition of Ghetto includes Jeremy Sams' songs and music from the play, as well as extracts from the original ghetto diary.
Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination.
Joshua Sobol's play Ghetto was first performed at the Haifa Municipal Theatre in Israel and the Freie Volksbuehne, Berlin, in 1984. This English-language version, adapted by David Lan, was first performed in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London, in April 1989, directed by Nicholas Hytner.
This edition of Ghetto includes Jeremy Sams' songs and music from the play, as well as extracts from the original ghetto diary.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
142 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-021-3 (9781854590213)
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Persons
David Lan is a South African-born British playwright and theatre director. He has been Artistic Director of the Young Vic theatre in London since 2000.