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Playwright to speak for Assembly Series
By Barbara Rea Renowned Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol will deliver the Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m. Nov. 20 in Graham Chapel. Sobol will be visiting the University for the St. Louis premiere of his play Shooting Magda. His Assembly Series lecture promises to shed light on this profound and controversial work.
The Haifa Municipal Theatre, where he became playwright-in-residence and later assistant artistic director from 1984-88 produced Sobol's first play in 1971. The performance of his play The Jerusalem Syndrome in January 1988 led to widespread protests across Israel, whereupon Sobol resigned from his director post and turned exclusively to writing. Sobol's international career began in 1983 when the Haifa production of his play Weininger's Night (The Soul of a Jew) was invited to participate in the Edinburgh Festival. The play was also performed in Vienna's Volkstheater and later adapted to an award-winning film of the same name. Sobol's three related plays: Ghetto, Adam and Underground, written from 1983-89, make up “The Ghetto Triptych.” Ghetto, the story of the Vilna theater that operated in the Jewish ghetto from 1941-43 during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, became world famous shortly after its premiere in 1984 and won a David's Harp Award in Israel for best play. The German premiere of the play followed in the same year and was chosen by TheaterHeute German Critic's Choice as best production and best foreign play of the year. It also has won the Evening Standard and the London Critics awards for best play of 1989, as well as being nominated for an Olivier Award. Ghetto has been translated into more than 20 languages and produced in more than 25 countries. In 1995, Sobol collaborated with Niklas Frank in writing a scenario for a theatrical event based on Frank's book Der Vater, which was commissioned by the Wiener Festwochen and performed at the Theater an der Wien. The play is about Frank's father, who was Hitler's governor general in Poland and was subsequently hanged in Nuremberg in 1946. Sobol and Frank also collaborated on the polydrama Alma (1995), based on the life of Alma Mahler-Werfel. In 2000, they wrote F@lco -- A Cyber Show, a multimedia musical about Austrian pop star Falco. Sobol's novel Silence debuted in 2001. All Assembly Series talks are free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture, call 935-4620 or go online to the Assembly Series Web site, wupa.wustl.edu/assembly. |
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