Playing for Time (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854590960 ISBN 13: 9781854590961

Verlag: Nick Hern Books, 1990

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Vintage Miller, homing in, like many of his other works including The Crucible, on an individual standing alone, and undergoing extreme dilemmas of personal conscience in the face of a system run mad. --Independent

Tells the story with memorable simplicity and gravity...As is always the case with Miller, the storytelling is straight as an arrow, but the conundrums are knotty, summed up by the portrayal of Alma Rose, Mahler's niece, who ruled the orchestra with an iron baton and kept the women alive through sheer strength of will...a reminder that the history of both the perpetrators and the victims cannot be whitewashed, and can never be while "someone is watching and remembering." --Guardian

Quite simply a knockout...The emotional impact of this powerful, absorbing production is tremendous...The Playhouse has produced nothing finer in its main house. --The Stage on the Salisbury Playhouse's 2005 production.
Tells the story with memorable simplicity and gravity...As is always the case with Miller, the storytelling is straight as an arrow, but the conundrums are knotty, summed up by the portrayal of Alma Rose, Mahler's niece, who ruled the orchestra with an iron baton and kept the women alive through sheer strength of will...a reminder that the history of both the perpetrators and the victims cannot be whitewashed, and can never be while "someone is watching and remembering." --Guardian

Quite simply a knockout...The emotional impact of this powerful, absorbing production is tremendous...The Playhouse has produced nothing finer in its main house. --The Stage on the Salisbury Playhouse's 2005 production.

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The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz, originally filmed for television with Vanessa Redgrave, and adapted for the stage by Miller himself. Fania Fenelon, a Parisian singer, is arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. There, she finds herself swept into the orchestra, composed entirely of female prisoners and founded as entertainment for the camp commandants. As long as the orchestra continues to find favour, its members will be spared the gas chambers. But Fania is struggling with the corruption of what she holds most sacred in the world her music and the morals of the orchestra members are being ground down every day. They are, quite literally, playing for time.

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• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1854590960
• ISBN 13: 9781854590961
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 81