theatre of the Holocaust: six plays

Six plays: 'Camp Comedy' by Roy Kift - the story of Kurt Gerron, who was ordered by the Nazis to make a propaganda film in order to deceive the Red Cross; 'The survivor and the translator' by Leeny Sack - a performance art piece about the playwright's grandmother, a camp survivor; 'Dreams of Anne Frank' by Bernard Kops - Anne Frank uses her extraordinary imagination to free herself from her attic prison through dreams of surrealistic wonder; 'The model apartment' by Donald Margulies - the tragicomic journey of two elderly Holocaust survivors whose search for contented retirement end unhappily in a Florida condominium; 'The portage to San Christobal of A.H.' by George Steiner (adapted for the stage by Christopher Hampton) - the controversial political thriller that imagines the discovery of Hitler at age 90, in the Brazilian jungle; 'H.I.D (Hess is dead)' by Howard Brenton - a dramatic encounter with the modern ghosts that haunt Europe and challenge the truth of its past