Circus

The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir

Date: Thursday, Sep 26 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Circomedia
Price: £12

The Escape Act – A Holocaust Memoir is a one-woman theatre show incorporating circus and puppetry. It is based on the life of Irene Danner, a Jewish acrobat who survived the Holocaust by hiding from the Nazis at a German circus.

The show goes back and forth between past and present and combines the historical events of Irene’s life with the experiences of the performer as a grandchild to Holocaust survivors.

Both a historical and theatrical project, it is a culmination of seven years of research into the lives of German-Jewish circus families between 1929-1945.

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For ages ten and over.

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By lowie trevena, Wednesday, Aug 28 2019

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