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One night after curfew in the Astoria Café, a group of waiters, cooks and entertainers, along with a spare rabbi or two, are forced by the German occupiers to form a Judenrat, a group of self-governing Jews who will thenceforth govern the lives—and determine the deaths—of their co-religionists in the ghetto that surrounds them. In that first act, they are forced, at a terrible cost, to choose their Elder, who is based on the true-life character Chaim Rumkowski, leader of the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Later, in the second act, we see the Judenrat and its leader confronted with the terrible moral dilemma of having to decide: Who among their fellow Jews is to live and who is to die? It is not a choice that any human being can make, not in a world that has not become morally unhinged and absurd. And yet, they must. In the madness, double-dealing and even humor that ensues, we join these ordinary mortals as they plumb the depths of the unimaginable that history has thrust upon them. Presented by Parkman Productions.
Show Notes: 1 intermission
Performance Schedule:
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 7 PM
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY @ 2 PM & 7 PM
SUNDAY @ 2 PM
Cast
Richard Topol
John Little
Daniel Oreskes
Erica Spyres & more
Director
Alexandra Aron
Written by
Leslie Epstein
