Playing for Time
A searing drama of the Holocaust—and the remarkable, moving story of the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra
Paris, 1942. Fania Fénelon, a popular Jewish nightclub singer, is arrested by the occupying Germans. Sent to Auschwitz in a packed freight-car, shorn of her hair, tattooed with an identifying number, starved, and subjected to harsh labor, she loses all traces of her former self. But her life at the camp changes dramatically when she is drafted into the Women’s Orchestra, a desperate little ensemble that marches the prisoners out to work and gives concerts for the German high brass. Led by Alma Rosé, a sternly ambitious German-Jewish conductor who knows that her job is a matter of life and death, Fania and her…
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December 1, 2015
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945) and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt.…
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Collected Essays
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
The Man Who Had All the Luck
Arthur Miller
The Creation of the World and Other Business
Arthur Miller
The Archbishop's Ceiling
Arthur Miller
The American Clock
Arthur Miller
Playing for Time
Arthur Miller
The Penguin Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller; Foreword by Lynn Nottage
A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller; Foreword by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Presence
Arthur Miller
Resurrection Blues
Arthur Miller
The Man Who Had All the Luck
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
The Man Who Had All the Luck
Arthur Miller
The Creation of the World and Other Business
Arthur Miller
The Archbishop's Ceiling
Arthur Miller
The American Clock
Arthur Miller
Playing for Time
Arthur Miller
Resurrection Blues
Arthur Miller
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Arthur Miller
Broken Glass
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Death and the Maiden
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Incident at Vichy
Arthur Miller
The Price
Arthur Miller
After the Fall
Arthur Miller