PEN America World Voices Festival – The Ordinary and the Atrocious: Nazism in the Imagination of the Contemporary Playwright
April 30 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
A summer camp for German-American children to be indoctrinated into Nazi ideology. A young Jewish boy coming of age in the Philippines after escaping Nazi Germany. A photo album of Auschwitz staff relaxing. The subject matter varies widely, but eighty years on, the Holocaust and its stories continue to haunt contemporary playwrights.
Bess Wohl (Camp Siegfried), Boni B. Alvarez (Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy), Amanda Gronich (Here There Are Blueberries), and Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk come together with S. Dylan Zwickel (The Moss Maidens) to discuss their use of theatre, with its unique immediacy, to grapple with a past that feels ever more present.
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