MARCH/APRIL 1993

Polyglot Theatre

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Night Train

Written by

SANDY MCCUTCHEON

Directed by

ELI EREZ

 

Starring

KEVIN GROVES

BRIAN ANDERSON

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Night Train is about a sad and funny character named David, a Holocaust orphan who has grown up in a non-Jewish adoptive family in Melbourne.

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The Mighty and 

The Condemned

Written by

AVRAHAM CYKIERT

Directed by

BRENDAN COHEN

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Starring

DAVID GILLIS​

RUSSELL SHAYER

DEREK FREEDMAN

DANNY GRUBER

PHIL BENJAMIN

SAM KOMESAROOK

MARK SALTER

RIC BENJAMIN

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An astute piece set in the

"Scribes Barracks" at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.  The scribes were inmates, some Jewish, who were charged with the onerous duty of keeping statistics on daily food stocks & body counts.  It chronicles the true story of one of the scribes, a Jewish scientist who has been drafted as a chess partner by the sadistic Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.  Rabbit, the chess player, finds himself in a deadly contest with his tormentor, one that he dare not win, yet for reasons of the heart and soul, one that he dare not lose either.