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About Monday Night in Westerbork
A difficult, surprisingly funny, often complex and ultimately joyous piece set along the plotlines of the theater group at concentration camp Westerbork. Monday Night In Westerbork finds Bergman solidly in hir storytelling element, investigating points of intersection and impact among identity, art, persecution and resistance. Not your traditional Holocaust narrative, but an educating, interrogating, celebrating piece of theater including everything from a song-and-dance number to a prayer for the dead.
Monday Night In Westerbork draws from many sources, personal and historical. Bergman weaves in threads of hir childhood experiences at Jew Camp (and the survivors who shared the same camp), visits to Westerbork and other concentration camps, storytelling, tribe behavior, resistance and the experiences of being queer-as-in-homo and also queer-as-in-different in a culture which values conventional achievement as a mode of survival. The artistic mélange cooks up a piece that's unique on the theater landscape - a performance that takes the opportunity to educate about Holocaust, engages and challenges viewers, and manages to be funny, touching, brutal and deeply inspiring by the end of an hour.
This performance is suitable for persons ages 13 and older.
Listen to Bear speak about the making of Monday Night in Westerbork
Notable
• Award winner, Most Promising New Work. National Gay and
Lesbian Theater Festival, 2006
