Here There Are Blueberries
by Moises Kaufman, Amanda Gronich

Off-Broadway
Here There Are Blueberries Book Cover
Here There Are Blueberries Cover

Highlights

90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings

Awards & Recognition

Drama League Award Lucille Lortel Award Outer Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize

Finalist! 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play & Outstanding Projection Design Nominee: 2025 Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee: 2025 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play

Synopsis

An album of never-before-seen World War II-era photographs arrives at the desk of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding.

As Rebecca and her team of historians begin to unravel the shocking story behind the images, the album soon makes headlines around the world.

In Germany, a businessman sees the album online and recognizes his own grandfather in the photos.

He begins a journey of discovery that will take him into the lives of other Nazi descendants – in a reckoning of his family’s past and his country’s history.

Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these photographs and what they reveal about the Holocaust and our own humanity.

Authors’ Note: This play is told in text and images.

It cannot exist without both.

In this form, the images operate like characters in the play: They carry part of the narrative, elicit emotional responses from the audience, and become an integral part of the fabric of the story.

[Images are included as part of the licensing rental package.]

Press Reviews

"Disturbingly resonant… [the authors] tackle with courage and compassion the nature of murderous complicity on an unfathomable scale."

— L.A. Times

"A dramatized documentary that looks at its subject from an unusual angle: the discovery of photographs taken at Auschwitz and the archivists who brought them to light."

— The New York Times

"An astonishing chronicle… an invaluable addition to Holocaust literature."

— New York Stage Review

"Impressive… [the] interplay of the projections tied in with the familial recollections of Nazi camp staff as complex human beings who, in some cases, had a desire to ‘do good,’ casts light on the age-old narrative of good vs. evil and further begs the question of how we, as humans reckon with culpability."

— San Diego Story

"Compelling… cracks open a 1944 photo album that captured life at Auschwitz and invites us to gaze beyond the frame."

— Observer

Characters

Character
Rebecca
3 Family Members
Donor
Judy
5 Archivists
Sara Bloomfield
Christophe Busch
Karl Höcker
Boss
Survivor
4 Reporters
Tilman
Colleague
3 Girls
Melita Maschmann
Prosecutor
Heinz Baumkötter
Helferin Relative
Peter Wirths
Hermann Langbein
Stefan Hördler
Paul Salmons
Rainer Höss
Trial Chairman
Charlotte Schünzel
+ 3 more characters

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Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573711886
ISBN-10 0573711887

Here There Are Blueberries is a play written by Moises Kaufman and published by Samuel French .

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