Dear Friends!
Please see details about Catherine Filloux's award-winning work on genocide (her play LEMKIN'S HOUSE) on our World Literature for Equal Dignity project page!
Warmly!
Evelin

Body Politic Theater and Vital Theatre Company present the return of Catherine Filloux's award-winning play LEMKIN'S HOUSE, Directed by Jean Randich

"A call to action… a compelling, well-acted play" – New York Times

LEMKIN'S HOUSE runs September 13-October 8 at McGinn-Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway at 76th Street), Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 7pm. Tickets are $25 (10% off for groups of 10-29; 15% off for 30 or more). For reservations, call 212-352-3101 or visit www.theatermania.com (For group discounts please order by phone.)

* Highly recommended by The New York Times in The Listings February 2006
“The man who invented the word genocide, Raphael Lemkin, turns out to have an unsettled afterlife in the compelling drama by Catherine Filloux. He learns, through visitations by Tutsis and others, that the international law he campaigned for against genocide may not have accomplished anything. John Daggett is impressive as Lemkin.”
(1:20) (Genzlinger)

Winner of the 2006 Peace Writing Award from the OMNI Center for Peace, LEMKIN'S HOUSE had its US premiere at the 78th Street Theatre Lab in February, 2006, opening to strong critical and audience response. John Daggett returns as Raphael Lemkin. He is joined by original cast members Christopher Edwards, Laura Flanagan, Christopher McHale, and Connie Winston. The production also reunites its original design team: Sue Rees (Set Design); Matthew Adelson (Lighting Design); Camille Assaf (Costume Design); Robert Murphy (Sound Design).

On September 13, Ruth Messinger, former Manhattan Borough President and current President of the American Jewish World Service, which is currently involved in seeking justice for genocide victims in Darfur, will participate in a post-show talk-back. Additional talk-backs are to be announced.

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/theater/reviews/13lemk.html

PRAISE FOR LEMKIN’S HOUSE

"Catherine Filloux has brought Raphael Lemkin, who first identified and led the effort to criminalize genocide, to life for audiences who otherwise might never understand how important this man's contribution has been to humankind. We all need to walk into Lemkin's House and remind ourselves that we have to finish what Lemkin began - to end genocide forever."
- David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues

“Over the past decade Catherine Filloux has created a powerful new theatrical sub-genre; plays exploring genocide. She avoids the polemic in favor of stories of individuals, translating the overwhelming horror of mass murder into gripping human tragedy.”
-- Elizabeth Becker, award-winning New York Times, Washington Post and NPR
reporter and author of "When the War was Over"

"Lemkin's House is more than just morally provocative and intellectually stunning theater - it also lays bare one of the greatest failures of imagination in history, the failure of us al to collectively imagine that our fellow human beings are worth saving from mass slaughter."
- Craig Etcheson, principal founder, Documentation Center of Cambodia and
author of "After the Killing Fields"

“One way to understand some of the worst horrors of the last sixty years is to be immersed in the story of the struggles of one man to define genocide and create a world that would stand up against this crime. The play reminds us of how far we yet have to go.”
- Ruth Messinger, president, American Jewish World Service

“Lemkin’s House is a thoughtful reflection on the terrible force of violence across cultures and times.”
-- Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia
University and author of “When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism,
and the Genocide in Rwanda”

"It is beautiful and stirring to a change so desperately needed in one of humanity's greatest unremitting shames: genocide. Even more powerful than the deft incisions made into our buffered sense of the world around us is Filloux’s use of humor. She treats us to a profound night in the theater.”
- Yael Danieli, Ph.D., director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their
Children and representative to the United Nations of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies