So many photographs are posted onto social media nowadays, but how many of those photographs will actually survive in time if there are no physical copies? And if the photos do survive, might they actually seem shocking to future generations? This is a theme in two plays currently running in New York – both excellent, yet both very different.
On the other hand, “Here There Are Blueberries,” a new docudrama conceived, directed, and co-written by Moisés Kaufman of the Tectonic Theater Project , which is now receiving its Off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop, dramatizes what actually happened in 2007 when an archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum came upon a mysterious album of Nazi officers and administrative employees relaxing and engaging in recreational activities while stationed at Auschwitz.
The questions raised by the photographs are numerous and complicated. In addition to determining the basic facts over who and what is being shown in them, the employees question what the museum should do with the photographs and what the photographs reveal about people who participate in crimes against humanity .
“Here There Are Blueberries” shares a lot in common with the musical “Cabaret,” which is currently being revived on Broadway and which is set in Weimar Germany and suggests how the Nazis took power through a weary population that either celebrated Hitler or passively failed to take action against the new regime.
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