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Silent Witnesses
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Delightful, Tour de force, Absorbing, Emotional, Clever
About the show
13th Street Repertory Company presents a solo show based on interviews with children who survived the Holocaust, who share their stories for the first time. More…
Writer/performer Stephanie Satie gives voice to four extraordinary women in her award-winning solo play. How do cataclysmic global events affect individuals? 'Silent Witnesses' paints a portrait of human resilience as seen through the eyes of children, infused with the wisdom of the adults they’ve become.
Member Reviews (2)
MEMBERS SAY:
Delightful, Tour de force, Absorbing, Emotional, Clever
for a previous production
"A modest and compassionate solo work based on interviews and conversations with child survivors of the Holocaust...Satie doesn't bring these women to life much beyond their childhood tales. But the respectful way she communicates what they lived through is perfectly measured. Sentimental flouris...
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for a previous production
"Writer/performer Stephanie Satie gives voice to four extraordinary women in her award-winning solo play...What we learn is that when your survival is on the line there is no way to judge what behavior people undertake to save themselves since there is no way any of us can know what we would do t...
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for a previous production
"The material is intrinsically powerful, and Satie’s wonderfully intimate and heartfelt performance creates the sense that we’re actually in the presence of the women whose lives she’s describing...One might wish that the play better connected its stories to the burgeoning anti-Semitism of the pr...
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for a previous production
"A genuinely humanizing, beautiful and hopeful amalgamation...Morphing into each character with impeccable craft she brings to life four heartbreaking yet incredibly inspiring realities. Not ghastly in any way, 'Silent Witnesses' is smart and uncommonly warm...My only only disappointment with 'S...
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