User:Danyoung/Who Will Carry the Word?

Who Will Carry the Word? is a French play by Charlotte Delbo, translated into English by Cynthia Haft. The original title is Qui Rapportera Ces Paroles?, and tells the story of twenty-three French women held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was written in 1966 and was first performed at the Cyrano Theatre, Paris in 1974. The characters are all members of the French Resistance, captured and imprisoned in February 1943. The play portrays in detail the hardships of life in a concentration camp, following the relationships between the women as they are surrounded by illness, starvation and death.

Productions

 * 1974: Premiere at Cyrano Theatre, Paris.
 * 1994: Off-Broadway production at the Judith Anderson Theatre, New York.
 * 2009: The first performance in the UK at the Courtyard Theatre, London.

Response
NYT review of the 1994 production: