![]() But she never forgot where she came from. It was the Yiddish culture-it was so joyous.”ĭart went on to undisputed success as a TV script writer for That Girl, Love American Style and the Cher Show and cemented her success with the novel Beaches, subsequently made into a film. “We were poor, but I never thought of myself as being deprived because we always laughed. “I grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household,” said Dart. Dart spoke about how she came to write The People in the Picture, and the meaning of the show. Last month, the Guggenheims had a conversation with Dart and some of the actors in the production. The “people in this picture” of the title are “The Warsaw Gang,” a troupe of Yiddish theater actors continuing against all odds to create brightness despite the horror of the Nazi occupation, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and even in the hells of concentration camps. It’s the story of three generations: Raisel Rabinowitz (Susan Gundunas) a former star of the Yiddish theatre in pre-WWII and wartime Poland, now living in New York: her daughter Red (Julia Wade) who tries to shut out the past and Raisel’s granddaughter, Jenny (Natalie Schoreder) who opens her heart to it.Ī second layer of the story is historical. At the individual level it’s a family story set in the 1970s. ![]() ![]() The show tells a multi-layered story that is both historical and individual. ![]()
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