So I randomly stumbled upon this the other day and almost over looked it. It is an article about theatre in Nazi concentration camps. I have no idea if this is at all commonly known, but it was a complete surprise to me. I think mostly because, having had the opportunity to visit a concentration camp myself, I know what these places look like. I know what happened, where it happened, how it happened and knowing these things, I find it almost impossible to imagine theatre existing in such a place. I guess because I’ve always seen theatre as existing on such things as life and energy and I can’t imagine that being at all a part of this world. But at the same time, I think it shows the power and effectiveness of theatre that it could still be present in such a horrifying place. But in the article if you notice, it talks mostly of the late 1930’s, so I don’t know how much theatre activity really occured later as things progressed and got worse.
http://www.theatrehistory.com/german/holocaust001.html
After having found and read this first article, I did a little more research and found a few other articles that I found interesting on the topic too. So I figured I’d share them as well incase there was an interest.
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