Three Short Holocaust Stories
Presented by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
April 9
Downtown
Written and directed by Kalman Kivkovich
FULL CIRCLE
Cast: Xander Wells as German Boy 1, Brody McKinnon as German Boy 2, Drue Larkin as Jewish Girl, Michael Loos as Gestapo, David Bezona as Hans, Joe Markesbery as Alfred], Megan Marshall as Carol & Chessie Vigran as Alma
A Hitler-Youth boy spares the life of a Jewish Girl. Forty-five years later, distinct generations entwine against all odds.
ONE SIMPLE DIGIT
Cast: Dennis Blom as Moishe, Jim Rogers as RONI, Arnie Shayne as HENRY & Charlie Goetz as Pinek
An Israeli born-again Jew, a taxi driver, helps an elderly American tourist, a Holocaust survivor, to start a new life.
SARALE
Cast: David Bezona as Announcer, Drue Larkin as Sarale, Michael Loos as David/Bernek, Chris Bishop as Bogdan, Adrianne Underhill as Malina, Charlie Goetz as Judge & Arnie Shayne as Jewish Official
A Jewish man in Nazi-occupied Poland pays his former Polish employee to shelter his 12-year-old daughter from the Nazis’ claws while he and the rest of the family relocate to the near-by Jewish ghetto. The girl’s uncle, a Holocaust survivor, learns her unexpected fate in a most bizarre way.
- Tue, April 9 at 7:30pm
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