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A PLAYSCRIPTS TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 4m
Michael Slade
The heroic and true story of children coming of age in Terezin, the “Jewish city” established by the Nazis near Prague as a way station before the death camps, And A Child Shall Lead is a stirring examination of human cruelty and resilience.
This is the heroic and true story of children coming of age in Terezin, the “Jewish city” established by the Nazis near Prague as a way station before the death camps. In the face of unspeakable horror, these children use their determination and creativity to build lives filled with hope and beauty – playing, studying, making art, and writing an underground newspaper – all at the peril of being executed. Their actual poems and stories are woven into a fast-paced drama, evoking the universality of children caught in the insanity of war.
And a Child Shall Lead premiered in 2006 at the Bend Experimental Art Theatre (B.E.A.T.) in Bend, Oregon.
Girls: JANA HELLEROVA – 6 years old, always carries her doll, Anna. She doesn’t know this is not a normal childhood. ALENA LEDEROVA – 11 years old, she has a very dark side. GABRIELA WINTEROVA – 12 years old, plays the violin, loves music. EVA HELLEROVA – 14 years old, Jana’s sister. She has been forced to become mother to Jana. She often wishes she could stop being an “adult” and resume her own childhood.
Boys: ERIK KOSEK – 8 years old. Idolizes Miroslav. MARTIN LOWY – 10 years old, the ‘new kid.‘ He comes from a wealthy Prague family. He doesn’t fit in on many levels. He loves to draw. PAVEL HOFFMAN – 14 years old, plays the recorder, loves music. MIROSLAV WEISS – 15 years old, charismatic, a natural leader and budding socialist.
(Ages listed for characters are for the start of the play.)The play was conceived to be performed by a multi-racial, multi-ethnic cast, as a reminder of the political atrocities children have fallen, and continue to fall, victim to throughout the world.
The play was conceived to be performed by a multi-racial, multi-ethnic cast, as a reminder of the political atrocities children have fallen, and continue to fall, victim to throughout the world.
Terezin Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia, 1942-1945.
“Harrowing, touching and even sometimes humorous.” – Watauga Democrat
“An extremely inspiring, sentimental and beautiful story.” – MIHS Islander