Special Guest: Edgar Krasa, distinguished Holocaust educator and survivor of Terezin, who has been for years speaking “…about music as an instrument of resistance and defiance.”

Join the cast and director in a post-performance talkback!
Special Guests: Cast and director of Brundibar and But the Giraffe!

Staged Reading, Directed by Daniel Gidron
Special Guest: Avital Manor Peleg, Cultural Attache, Consulate General of Israel to New England

Berlin 1932, days after the elections which will soon bring Hitler to power. Mark Erdmann is an acclaimed Jewish physicist, the head of the atomic lab at the University of Berlin. His wife Leah, an avid consumer of the city’s rich cultural life, is involved in an extramarital affair. The signs of impending danger are increasing, but the power of self-delusion cannot be easily overcome as the Jewish couple ponders whether to seek an unknown future outside Germany or to stay put and succumb to a fate known to us in hindsight. Reading will be followed with conversation.

Special guest: Carole Charnow, President and CEO, Boston Children’s Museum

Brundibar is a testament to the creative power of human beings, even in dark times, to turn ugliness into beauty – and it is just one example among many inspiring stories. Join us for a discussion of other notable instances of remarkable music emerging as a defiant response to horrific oppression.
Special guest: George E. Oliver, Musical Director, Union Baptist Church, Cambridge
Kera Washington, ethnomusicologist and founder of Zili Misik, an all female ensemble that retraces routes of cultural resistance through diasporic rhythm and song.