The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2: Six Plays

Contributors

Photograph © Annette Hudeman ROY KIFTzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA (Camp Comedy) studied French and Italian at the University of Wales and trained as an actor at the London Drama Centre. He has been a full-time playwright since 1972 with occasional excursions into directing stage, radio and TV, teaching in drama schools, and lecturing in universities around Europe. He is the winner of many literary prizes and awards including the Thames Television (Stage) Dramatists Award (1974), first prize in the New Plays Competition organized by the German Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft "Hilfe fur Behinderte" for Stronger than Superman (1981), the "Forderpreis" of the Wurtembergischen Staatstheaters, Stuttgart for the libretto for the chamber opera Joy (music: Susanne Erding, 1984) and a Berlin Writer's Award in 1987. Kift is also a translator of stage plays, including works by Moliere, Goldoni, Gozzi, Patrick Siiskind, Heinar Kipphardt, and Volker Ludwig. He also has contributed to several theatre magazines, such as DRAMA, Plays and Players, Theatre Quarterly, New Theatre Quarterly, and Western European Stages. He lives currently in Germany. zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSR 400 Photograph © Silvia Jansen LEENY SACKzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA (The Survivor and the Translator) was born in Brooklyn in 1951, a daughter of concentration camp survivors, "and that reality has shadowed and colored my life and my work." Her works include Our Lady of the Hidden Agenda, Paper Floor, Opening Remarks, Group Show, Watercolor, and (Neo-Ventriqual) Thought Clouds. She has performed and taught extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia, both as a member of The Performance Group (1974-1978) and as a solo artist. She is a founder and, with her husband, Norman Rosenberg, codirector of Pangea Farm, a center for the study of meditation, psychology, and the arts, where since 1989 she has lived, made new work, and taught practices in breath, sound, kinetic awareness, and performance as an embodiment of insight. Many of her students are from Germany and Austria where she teaches several times each year. 401 Photograph by Wolfgang Osterheld BERNARD KOPSzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA (Dreams of Anne Frank) is one of England's best known playwrights . He is also an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist. Born in the East End of London of Dutch-Jewish working-class parents, he achieved recognition for his first play The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1956). That play was followed by twenty others for the stage, twenty radio plays, eleven novels, and six works of poetry. His Jewish background and the existentialist struggle associated with it play an important part in his dramas, as does the Holocaust. Kops notes that if his father had been able to raise the ten pounds necessary to emigrate back to the Netherlands before the Second World War, he would have perished, along with other members of his family, in the concentration camps. In 1999 four volumes of his collected plays will be published by Oberon Books (England). Dreams of Anne Frank won the Time Out Award for Best Fringe Play of 1992-1993. zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfe 402 Photograph by Harold Shapiro DONALD MARGULIES'szyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFE (The Model Apartment) plays have premiered at major theatres around the United States, including the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, and the Jewish Repertory Theatre . The recipient of NEA and Guggenheim Awards, he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A collection of his work, Sight Unseen and Other Plays, has been published by the Theatre Communications Group. Among his better-known and frequently produced plays are Dinner With Friends, The Loman Family Picnic, and What's Wrong With This Picture! Born in Brooklyn in 1954, Margulies lives in New Haven and teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfe 403 GEORGE STEINERzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA (The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.) was born in 1929 in Paris to a Viennese mother and a Bohemian father. He was educated in the French lycee, at the University of Chicago, at Harvard, and at Oxford. He has taught at universities in the United States and England and has held chairs of comparative literature at the University of Geneva and at Oxford. He also is a founding fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Among his many honors are an O. Henry Short Story award, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books, translated into some twelve languages, include Language and Silence, The Death of Tragedy, In...