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Camp Comedy
Author(s): Roy Kift
<em>Camp Comedy</em> focuses on the film director and actor Kurt Gerron, who, prior to the war appeared in Bertolt Brecht’s <em>Threepenny Opera</em> and with Marlene Dietrich in the classic film <em>Blue Angel</em> and who, in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, was forced by the Nazis to create a propaganda film, <em>The Führer Gives a City to the Jews</em>, extolling the virtues of the model camp. The play, which is highly theatrical and employs a narrator, uses actual cabaret material written and performed in Theresienstadt. <em>Camp Comedy</em> poses ethical and moral questions about survival and collaboration.
Format:Cabaret; revue
Snapshot
Nationality of Author:English
Experience(s) Chronicled:Concentration and Extermination Camps | The Ghettos | Theater During Holocaust
Tags: Terezin, Theresienstadt, Kurt Gerron
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