Songs and sketches from the Terezin Camp, originally performed May 1 at Triad Theater in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Conceived by Edward Einhorn
Developed and Directed by
Edward Einhorn and Jenny Lee Mitchell
Pay what you can, requested donation $25.
Using songs and sketches from Lisa Peschel’s anthology, Performing Captivity, and other sources
This year's production was dedicated to the memory of cast member Barbara Maier Gustern.
With: Craig Anderson, Seth Gilman, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, and Katarina Vizina
Musical direction and piano accompaniment: Maria Dessena, Violin: Johnna Wu
Terezin was the final stop for more than 30,000 Central and Western European Jews, most from Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany who perished within its walls. For thousands more it was only a way station on the journey to the slave-labor and death camps. Yet it was also a place where many prisoners became intensely aware of the meaning and power or art. During those years in Terezin/Theresienstadt, a vigorous cultural life emerged. Not all prisoners participated in the cultural life and only a small fraction of the works produced there has survived.
Amy Oestreicher, in her Broadway World review, said “Cabaret in Captivity is a call to action to use hope not as a means of passive daydreaming, but a powerful act of resistance. It has been said that humor equals truth plus distance. Perhaps humor was the most palatable, effective way of sharing the unbelievable creativity, will, and resistance that came from the 'Chosen' who 'had no choice.'
