A holocaust cabaret : re-making theatre from a Jewish ghetto / edited by Lisa Peschel.

Prologue / Joseph Toltz and Petrus du Preez -- Introduction / Lisa Peschel -- 'There must be some way to protect this young man': Re-making "Prince Bettliegend" / Ian Maxwell -- Student ethnographers in the rehearsal room: Witnessing "Prinz Bettliegend" / Laura Ginters -- Singing up the past and stompin' with the prinz: Jaroslav Ježek and the music of "Prinz Bettliegend" / Joseph Toltz and Kevin Hunt -- Conversation I: "Prinz Bettliegend" in Australia and bearing the gift forward / Amelda Brand, Ian Maxwell, and Lisa Peschel -- "Prinz Bettliegend" in the Western Cape, South Africa: Permission to play / Amelda Brand -- Out of the shadows: Notions of memory and remembrance / Leonore Bredekamp -- 'Race', power...and clowning: The Stellenbosch cast reflects / Amelda Brand and the Stellenbosch cast -- Conversation II: The prinz and pedagogy, identity and cultural appropriation / Amelda Brand, Ian Maxwell, and Lisa Peschel -- "Prince Bettliegend" performance script: Australia, August 2017 -- "Prinz Bettliegend" performance script: Western Cape, South Africa, March 2018 -- Conclusion / Lisa Peschel.

“In 2017, two teams of collaborators - one in Australia and one in South Africa - embarked upon a remarkable project. Each team created their own performance from the archival traces of a satirical cabaret called Prinz Bettliegend (The Beridden Prince), written and performed by prisoners in the Second World War Jewish ghetto at Terezín (in German, Theresienstadt). Their engagement with these traces resulted in two vivid performances that not only brought the past into our present, but put that past into dialogue with deeply felt local and contemporary concerns. This book presents both of the resulting scripts, alongside a series of essays about the creation of the performances and an exploration of the original Terezín production.” -- Baksida.