

The Theatre Of The Holocaust, Volume 1
Robert Skloot
Awards & Recognition
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
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.]
"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
| 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 |
Here There Are Blueberries – NYTW Teaser
Here There Are Blueberries is a play written by Moises Kaufman and published by Samuel French .
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