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The Pip Simmons Group: Commemorating the Nazi Concentration Camps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2021
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In July, 1975, the Pip Simmons Theatre Group performed for the first time in London since disbanding in April, 1973. As with previous works by this group, some critics and spectators were offended. The last two plays Simmons had created in England were Do It!, based on Jerry Rubin's book, and The George Jackson Black and White Minstrel Show, staged shortly after Jackson had been killed and played by white performers in blackface. By affecting a fashion of dress and a vocabulary of four-letter words without actually being involved, these productions affronted those English liberals who romanticized the American Yippie and Black movements. Nazi concentration camps are the subject of the latest production, which appropriately opened in the The Netherlands of Anne Frank in the spring of 1975. The play commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the closing of the camps.
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- New Performance
- Information
- The Drama Review , Volume 19 , Issue 4: New Performance and Manifestos , December 1975 , pp. 41 - 46
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1975 The Drama Review
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This title photograph by Roger Perry is of the prisoners performing a Beethoven funeral march as the last number in An die Musik by The Pip Simmons Theatre Group.
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