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Reading Planned of 'The Holocaust Kid' - November 12, 2007
LENOX - Sonia Pilcer'S new play "The Holocaust Kid" will have a staged reading in Founders’ Theater at Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble Street, on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2.
Tickets are a suggested donation of $18 and are available at the door. The play is performed in two acts and runs approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. The theater is wheelchair-accessible. For information, visit www.holocaustkid.com .
"Wit and humor interface with stark realities and unanswerable questions ... Provocative fiction, not just for the Second Generation but for all our collective memories,” says Booklist of the work.
An adaptation of her 2001 novel of the same title, the play is set in the late 1980s and the world of an adult child of the Holocaust, a Second Generation survivor who does her best to disassociate with her heritage and the horrors of her parents' past. Alternately dark, poignant, uproarious and irreverent, the play explores how the Holocaust, so many years after liberation, resonates in the lives of her characters.
Robert Walsh directs a cast of four, including Elizabeth Aspenlieder as Zosha, born in a Displaced Persons camp, liberal minded and irreverent, a freelance writer; Jonathan Epstein as Heniek Palovsky, her distant father, a survivor of Auschwitz; Seth Kanor as Uly Oppenheim, Zosha's lover and a scholar of the Holocaust; and Nancy Rothman as Genia, Zosha's mother, who met Heniek in Poland after the war.
In Pilcer's essay "2G" published in 1987, she writes: "We call ourselves 2G. Group shorthand for Second Generation, the survivors' children ... While the survivors seem to have the ability to go on with their lives – the bar mitzvahs and weddings of their children are huge, festive affirmations of life – it is their children who spend much of their time, not to mention money, talking to Ph.D.'s and MSW's. In unaccented, well-reasoned English, we speak of anger, guilt, trying to separate ourselves from our parents and their Holocaust past. Secretly, we believe that nothing we can ever do will be as important as our parents' suffering."
After working on "The Holocaust Kid" for 18 years and receiving nearly 40 rejections, Pilcer published it in 2001 and developed a one-act play for Shakespeare and Company’s 2003 Studio Festival of Plays. Since then, Pilcer has created a new two-act version.
This staged reading is co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and Congregation Ahavath Sholom. |
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