THE GHETTO CABARET
By Galit Klaas
with Dramaturgy by Gary Abrahams
Devised with the ensemble
Any night could be their last performance. Danger, disease and betrayal surround the Jewish musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, opera and theatre performers thrown together and trapped in the Ghettos of WWII. But their fear is transformed into art as they try to create meaning out of the terror and chaos around them.
Full of Yiddish songs unheard for decades,The Ghetto Cabaret tells a daring story created by third generation survivors rewriting the narrative of the Holocaust as a story for everyone.
Featuring Evelyn Krape, Galit Klaas, Dimity Shepard, Nelson Gardner, Joshua Rueben, Jim Daly
Musicians Scott Griffiths, Alex Burkoy
Directed by : Gary Abrahams
Set and Costume Design by: Dann Barber
Lighting Design by: Rachel Burke
Musical Director: Scott Griffiths
Choreography by: Leanne Marsland
Arrangements: Scott Griffiths, Galit Klaas based on source material
Produced by 45 Downstairs and Kadimah Yiddish Theatre
★★★★ ‘one of the most ambitious and stirring, blackly funny and profoundly sad works of cabaret I’ve seen.’ Cameron Woodhead, The Age
‘a piece of magical theatre’ Stage Whispers
