Violated women was the theme of our Women, Theater, and the Holocaust event
A matinee of theater readings took place on April 15, 2018, at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York City, as part of our VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide exhibition.
Our Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Sunday matinee event in 2018 was presented at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in SoHo, New York City, where we were showing our international group art exhibition, VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide.
The event included three dramatic readings that complemented our art exhibition. The Spoken and the Unspoken, a play written by Cynthia L. Cooper and featuring professional actors Stacey Linnartz and Claudia Schneider, dramatizes Remember the Women Institute’s work about sexual violence during the Holocaust and the difficulties that this work has encountered.
Excerpts and songs from In the Underworld, written by French political prisoner Germaine Tillion in Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp, were performed and sung by Charlotte Torres, Angela Bey, Mya Flood, Indira Joell, and Bella Ragomo, students of Dr. Meghan Brodie, Ursinus College. Dr. Brodie provided an introduction and historical context.
The premiere of A Congolese Refugee Lives to Survive, performed by professional actor Abigail Ramsay and written by Cynthia L. Cooper, was adapted (with permission) from an interview conducted by HIAS in South Africa.
A panel discussion about art and theater followed. There was also an opportunity to view the exhibition. The readings, which accompanied Remember the Women Institute’s exhibition, were also part of the National Jewish Theater Foundation/Holocaust Theater International Initiative Remembrance Readings.