Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss by Mindy Weisel

Author:Mindy Weisel [Weisel, Mindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Holocaust, History
ISBN: 9781931868013
Google: ZgjjCxvg51AC
Publisher: Capital Books
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

November 1990

I began work on a show. At first, performing embarrassingly bad Polish jokes in a Lower East Side shopfront/theatre, friends advised me to dig more deeply, to find my own voice, not to be afraid.

I told a publicist I knew that I was working on a humorous piece about the Holocaust. He warned me that if it weren’t brilliant, I’d have to leave town. No pressure.

I began to improvise my darkest fantasies, a slave laborer, an inmate of Auschwitz, a starving child. Was I crazy? It would have been so much easier to parody Tammy Faye Bakker.

With the greatest of trepidation, I continued. During one rehearsal, a child ghost appeared just as I was improvising entering the gates of Auschwitz. “Deb! I’m so hungry. Did you bring something to eat? We’ve been waiting for you to come back, all of us. Do you have cheesecake?”

This macabre character later became my imaginary child, Chaikeh, in my off-Broadway show, Punch Me in the Stomach!

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