Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine

Three Plays and Essays on WWII and Its Aftermath

• Author(s): Inez Hedges,
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 3030840093
  ISBN_13: 9783030840099
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Theater / General , History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General , Performing Arts / Dance / Classical & Ballet ,

Description:...

This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.