Eastbound Theatre, a division of Milford Arts Council will present “Remembrance,” four original Holocaust-themed short plays on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 4 p.m. at the MAC, 40 Railroad Ave. South in Milford.
The staged readings, presented as part of Eastbound’s “Plays in Development“ series, commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of the concentration camps.
The program features short plays by Mark Lambeck and is directed by Lucy Babbitt, both of Stratford. They include: “The Barracks Chief,” “Chance,” “The Registrar,” and “Ben’s Story.” Two of the plays take place in concentration camps during World War II, while the remaining ones are set some 60 years later in the early 2000s.
In “The Barracks Chief,” a concentration camp prisoner refuses food rations on the eve of Yom Kippur. “Chance” is the story of a minister’s wife who visits a psychiatrist after experiencing disturbing visions of the Holocaust. In “The Registrar,” a young Jewish woman is forced to register new internment camp arrivals. “Ben’s Story” focuses on a graduate student who decides to tell his grandfather’s personal story of Holocaust survival as the basis for his thesis only to uncover a family secret.
Actors in the program are Joan Barere of New Haven, Jack DeLorenzo of Milford, Mark Frattaroli of Stratford, Alicia James of Guilford, Jack E. Levine of Beacon Falls and Lynnette Victoria of Bridgeport. Nancy A. Herman of Milford, co-chairman
of the MAC’s Eastbound Theatre, will read stage directions and lead a Q&A discussion following the performance.
For more information about the series, contact Milford Arts Council/Eastbound Theatre at 203-878-6647 or visit milfordarts.org/event/eastbound-theatre-remembrance/.