A Dead Woman on Holiday: A Staged Play reading: 7.00pm 27 January at Burgh House, Hampstead

Pascal Theatre Company returns to Burgh House for Holocaust Memorial Day with a staged reading of a play, written and directed by Julia Pascal,  addressing issues of adultery, guilt and survival, contrasting a conventional marriage and domesticity against free love.

The Nazis, wrote Primo Levi, called a Jew in a concentration camp “a dead man on holiday.”

A Dead Woman on Holiday occurs not in a concentration camp but during the Nuremberg Trials after the Second World War. Sophie Goldenberg, a French Jew, is working as a translator during the hearings when she and a Catholic American soldier meet and fall in love. But she has an English husband, and he an American wife and child.

Burgh House
New End Square
London NW3 1LT
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See also: A DEAD WOMAN ON HOLIDAY – Julia Pascal PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, JOURNALIST, SCHOLAR

A Dead Woman on Holiday is part of The Holocaust Trilogy available to purchase from Bloomsbury