[Editor’s Note: This is not to be confused with Marla Petal and Michelle Baron’s exhibit on Rose Feld Rosman’s story in 1983, titled ‘Crying Hands: Deaf Victims of the Holocaust’.]
Mira Zuckermann
Theater Director, Teater Manu
30 Jan 2019
Teater Manu, a National Deaf Theater in Oslo, Norway has a touring professional group. The touring group is performing “Crying Hands: Deaf people in Hitler’s Germany” in North America:
- March 7-9: Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Washington DC
- March 13-17: Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York
- March 20-24: Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada
CRYING HANDS, based on interviews with deaf Holocaust and civilian survivors, explores the fates of the deaf and disabled in Nazi Germany – an often neglected story of the Holocaust in a “docudrama” format with projections and a storyteller who presents facts along with the actors´ performances.
Bentein Baardson wrote script and directed the play which is presented in American Sign Language and spoken English.
List of all CRYING HANDS performances is available at www.cryinghands.com
Source: Jeanett Rønneberg Hagen
