A Holocaust Cabaret : Re-Making Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Intellect, Limited,
2023.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781789388152 1789388155 9781789388169 1789388163 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- 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
- Notes on Contributors
- Back Cover