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The Jewish Wife (Crimp)

10 Minute Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

Bertolt Brecht, Martin Crimp

Amalgamated from the scenes in 'Fear and Misery in the Third Reich'

The Jewish Wife (Crimp)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

Details

Summary

This short play chronicles the hardships of life for a Jewish woman married to a non-Jewish man in the Third Reich and the impact the rising anti-semitism has on thier relationship

The Wife

The Husband

  • Time Period 1940s/WWII
  • Setting

    The bedroom of a house in Germany, 1930's.

  • Duration 10 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre in the 1980s. His plays include: When we have sufficiently tortured each other (2019), Men Asleep (2018), The Rest Will be Familiar To You From Cinema (2013, voted by Germany’s Theater heute best foreign play of the ...

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