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Who Will Carry the Word?
Written byCharlotte Delbo
CharactersFrancoise, Gina, Denise, etc.
Date premiered14 March 1974
Place premieredCyrano Theatre, Paris
Original languageFrench
SubjectFrench prisoners of war are held at Auschwitz
GenreDrama
SettingAuschwitz, 1943

Who Will Carry the Word? is a French play by Charlotte Delbo, translated into English by Cynthia Haft. The original title is Qui Rapportera Ces Paroles?, and tells the story of twenty-three French women held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was written in 1966 and was first performed at the Cyrano Theatre, Paris in 1974.[1] The characters are all members of the French Resistance, captured and imprisoned in February 1943. The play portrays in detail the hardships of life in a concentration camp, following the relationships between the women as they are surrounded by illness, starvation and death.

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NYT review of the 1994 production: [3]


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  1. ^ The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1. ed. and with an introd. by Robert Skloot. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
  2. ^ "New York" magazine 25 April 1994 [1]
  3. ^ www.thecourtyard.org.uk [2]

also try [4]

google books: [5]


Category: 1974 plays Category: Off-Broadway plays