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Roar China in a Nazi Concentration Camp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Alvin Goldfarb
Affiliation:
Illinois Sate University

Extract

I would like to make an addition to Walter J. and Ruth I. Meserve's “The Stage History of Roar China: Documentary Drama as Propaganda,” Theatre Survey, 21 (May 1980), 1–11. The propagandistic qualities of Tretiakov's play can be seen in a production I mention in my article “Theatrical Activities in Nazi Concentration Camps,” Performing Arts Journal, 1 no. 2 (Fall 1976), 3–11. In 1944 an inmate of the Polish concentration camp in Czestochowa, Shie Tigel, was allowed to organize theatrical activities. Tigel, who had been an actor in the Warsaw Yiddish theatres, was allowed to construct “a special barrack for theatre with a stage, curtains, and light reflectors.”

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Notes and documents
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1980

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References

NOTE

1 Turkov, Yonas, “Teater un Kontsertn in di Getos un Kontsentratsye Lagern,” in Yidisher Teater in Yirope … Poyln (New York: Knight Publishing, 1968), p. 508.Google Scholar My discussion of this production is based on this source. The translation from Yiddish is my own. Names and titles have been transliterated from the Yiddish.