And Then They Came For Me at Alma Tavern in Bristol from 25 to 28 January 2017
And Then They Came for Me from Wednesday 25 January 2017 to Saturday 28 January 2017 at Alma Tavern in Bristol.
And Then They Came for Me is a unique experience…a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Eva Schloss and Ed Silberberg with live actors recreating scenes from their lives as teenagers during WW ll. Ed was Anne Frank’s first boyfriend. Eva was the same age and lived across from Anne in Amsterdam until she and her family were arrested by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. More than 1.25 million people were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau where Eva and her family were sent.
Part oral history, part drama action, part remembrance, this play brings to life what happened after The Diary of Anne Frank ends. The ensemble-driven play breaks new ground and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics in world-wide productions.
‘This play is a video testimony by real people about what really happened. As we studied all the survivor testimonies, we realised that life and death hangs in the balance of a single moment. Many of these moments are captured in this moving production.’ Rives Collins, Professor of Theatre, Northwestern University, Chicago, 1999
‘After the war, people said it would never happen again, and people didn’t want to talk about it—it was something that happened, let’s forget about it, now we live in a different life. What’s happening now in Bosnia and what’s happening in many other places…we’re still doing the same thing and again the world just looks on.’ Eva Schloss