Voices Plays for Studying the Holocaust

Bringing together scripts, activities, and resources, this book has been compiled so as to offer intellectual and emotional experiences that students will long remember. The voices echoing dramatically from these scripted pages ring with both true and fictional stories of the Holocaust that we should not fail to hear.

Acknowledgments

ix

Copyrights

ix

PART ONE

Background on the Holocaust

3

(18)

Introduction

3

(1)

Meeting the Challenge

4

(2)

The Holocaust

6

(10)

Chronology

7

(9)

How to Use This Book

16

(5)

PART TWO

Plays and Activities: Beginning Study

21

(74)

Can You Hear Them Crying?

21

(2)

The Playwright: Virginia Burton Stringer

21

(1)

The Play

22

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

22

(1)

Can You Hear Them Crying?

23

(15)

Production Notes

38

(1)

Set Design

39

(1)

Costumes

40

(1)

Props

40

(1)

Biographies

40

(2)

Teaching Activities

42

(7)

Angel in the Night

49

(3)

The Playwright: Joanna H. Kraus

49

(1)

The Play

50

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

50

(2)

Angel in the Night

52

(34)

Synopsis of Scenes

86

(1)

Production Notes

87

(3)

Teaching Activities

90

(5)

Plays and Activities: Intermediate Study

95

(74)

Kindertransport

95

(5)

The Playwright: Diane Samuels

95

(1)

The Play

96

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

97

(2)

Synopsis of Act One, scene one

99

(1)

Kindertransport

100

(18)

Teaching Activities

118

(4)

T-Money & Wolf

122

(4)

The Playwrights: Kevin Willmott & Ric Averill

122

(1)

The Play

123

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

123

(3)

T-Money & Wolf

126

(36)

Production Notes

162

(1)

Teaching Activities

163

(6)

Plays and Activities: Advanced Study

169

(140)

The Man in the Glass Booth

169

(5)

The Playwright: Robert Shaw

169

(1)

The Play

170

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

171

(3)

Synopsis

174

(1)

The Man in the Glass Booth

174

(12)

Teaching Activities

186

(5)

A Bright Room Called Day

191

(6)

The Playwright: Tony Kushner

191

(1)

The Play

192

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

193

(3)

Synopsis of the Second Interruption

196

(1)

Second Interruption

197

(1)

Synopsis of Scene Seventeen

197

(1)

Scene Seventeen

198

(4)

Synopsis of Scene Twenty--Three

201

(1)

Scene Twenty--Three

202

(3)

Synopsis of Scene Twenty--Four

205

(1)

Scene Twenty--Four

205

(2)

Teaching Activities

207

(3)

``Voice'' in Remnants

210

(3)

The Playwright: Hank Greenspan

210

(1)

The Play

210

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

211

(2)

Synopsis

213

(1)

``Voice'' in Remnants

213

(2)

Teaching Activities

215

(2)

Hitler's Childhood

217

(4)

The Playwright: Niklas Radstrom

217

(1)

The Translator: Frank Gabriel Perry

217

(1)

The Play

218

(1)

Information about the Play and the Holocaust

219

(2)

Hitler's Childhood

221

(56)

Teaching Activities

277

(8)

PART THREE

Bibliography

285

(8)

Appendix A Plays, Playwrights, and Publishers

293

(4)

Appendix B Resource References

297

(8)

Appendix C Other Works by Contributors

305

(4)

Index

309

(4)

About the Author

313

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Voices Plays for Studying the Holocaust

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