Magda and Josef

Magda and Josef

Magda and Josef

Magda and Josef

Magda and Josef

Overview

Magda and Josef is the true story of a young woman who risked her life and do the right thing when so many others were turning their backs and pretending not to see what is going on around them. Set during the time of The Holocaust, Magda, a young non-Jewish woman, undertakes a perilous journey to secure a document that will help to save the life of the Jewish man she loves. Her story is the answer to anyone who has ever asked: “What could I have done, I was just an ordinary person?”

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Details

  • Genre: Biography, Period, Docudrama/Historic
  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Cast Attributes: Ensemble cast, Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Parts for Senior Actors
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Authors

David F. Eliet

David F. Eliet is a professional playwright, director, and theatre educator. He was the founding artistic director of The Perishable Theatre, director of the Cleveland Play House Lab Company and the Circle In The Square Suitcase Theatre and Acting Ensemble. He was the a co-f ...
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Yaffa Eliach

Yaffa Eliach is a pioneering scholar in Holocaust studies. She is Professor Emerita from Brooklyn College and is currently teaching across the United States as a visiting Professor. She opened the first Center for Holocaust Studies Documentation & Research in the USA and in ...
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