Ghetto
Paperback, 124 pages ISBN: 9781854590213Publication Date:
11 May 1989
Size: 197mm x 130mm£13.99 £11.19You save £2.80 (20%)
First Staged:
Israel, 1984; UK Premiere National Theatre, London, 1989

Ghetto

By Joshua Sobol Adapted by David Lan

Paperback £13.99£11.19

  • Best New Play, Critics' Circle Awards - 1989
  • Best Play, Evening Standard Awards - 1989

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Critics Circle Award for Best New Play.

Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination.

Joshua Sobol's play Ghetto was first performed at the Haifa Municipal Theatre in Israel and the Freie Volksbühne, Berlin, in 1984. This English-language version, adapted by David Lan, was first performed in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London, in April 1989, directed by Nicholas Hytner.

This edition of Ghetto includes Jeremy Sams' songs and music from the play, as well as extracts from the original ghetto diary.

Paperback,124 pages ISBN: 9781854590213Publication Date:
11 May 1989
Size: 197mm x 130mm£13.99 £11.19You save £2.80 (20%)

Also by David Lan:

A Mouthful of Birds

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