Title: Stages of annihilation
First published: 1997
Description: Stages of Annihilation seeks to unlock the conundrum of Holocaust dramatic representation by identifying those elements that inhibit theatrical enactment and by examining works that succeed, at least partially, in transcending these limitations.

The book identifies emerging patterns and correlations among dramatic texts written about the Holocaust over the past fifty years. Isser proposes a framework for assessing and adjudicating these plays that is rational and nonprescriptive. He also emphasizes the centrality of documentation and the social responsibility of playwrights in his reading of specific texts.

Stages of Annihilation provides critical orientation for future actors, directors, and theater scholars interested in this compelling and problematic body of work.
Subjects: Drama, Jews in literature, History and criticism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, Theater, biography
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN1879.H65 I86 1997