A unique exploration of a 1943 play adapted by an Australian and a South African production teams in 2017.
A Holocaust Cabaret presents two scripts that were created in 2017 from the same source materials: preserved song lyrics from a performance titled Prince Bettliegend that was created in 1943 in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) Ghetto. The materials were complemented by the popular 1930s jazz melodies to which those lyrics were set, and by fragments of testimony by survivors who performed in or witnessed that production. Lisa Peschel synthesized the existing materials into a rough plot outline, then collaborated with local production teams at the University of Sydney and Stellenbosch University to reimagine the play. A Holocaust Cabaret presents the final scripts alongside a series of essays by her collaborators about the process of their creation and production and an exploration of the original Terezín production.
Edited by:
Lisa Peschel (University of York)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789388145
ISBN 10: 1789388147
Series: Playtext
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 05 January 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures Preface Prologue Joseph Toltz and Petrus du Preez Part I Introduction to A Holocaust Cabaret: Remaking Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto Lisa Peschel ‘There must be some way to protect this young man’: Remaking Prince Bettliegend Ian Maxwell Student Ethnographers in the Rehearsal Room: Witnessing Prinz Bettliegend Laura Ginters Singing Up the Past and Stompin’ with the Prinz: Jaroslav Ježek and the Music of Prinz Bettliegend Joseph Toltz and Kevin Hunt Conversation I: Prinz Bettliegend in Australia and Bearing the Gift Forward Amelda Brand, Ian Maxwell and Lisa Peschel (Edited by Lisa Peschel) Prinz Bettliegend in the Western Cape, South Africa: Permission to Play Amelda Brand Out of the Shadows: Notions of Memory and Remembrance Leonore Bredekamp Race, Power … and Clowning: The Stellenbosch Cast Reflects Amelda Brand and the Stellenbosch cast (Edited by Lisa Peschel) Conversation II: The Prinz and Pedagogy, Identity and Cultural Appropriation Amelda Brand, Ian Maxwell and Lisa Peschel (Edited by Lisa Peschel) Part II Prince Bettliegend Performance Script: Australia, August 2017 Prinz Bettliegend Performance Script: Western Cape, South Africa, March 2018 Conclusion Lisa Peschel Appendix 1: Plot outline and songs Notes on Contributors Index
Lisa Peschel is a senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media (TFTI) at the University of York, UK.
