AUFSEHERIN

by Rick Plummer

20-minute play. 83 year-old Elfriede Rinkel, a widowed grandmother living in her home in San Francisco at Chanukah, 2006, is haunted by the ghosts of three female French resistance fighters who were executed at the Nazi female concentration camp, Ravensbrük. Elfriede has married a Jewish man and has lived as a Jew herself since her immigration from Germany to the United States in the late 1950s. It is discovered...

20-minute play. 83 year-old Elfriede Rinkel, a widowed grandmother living in her home in San Francisco at Chanukah, 2006, is haunted by the ghosts of three female French resistance fighters who were executed at the Nazi female concentration camp, Ravensbrük. Elfriede has married a Jewish man and has lived as a Jew herself since her immigration from Germany to the United States in the late 1950s. It is discovered that Elfiede was a guard at that notorious camp. Elfriede must decide whether to reveal to her married son and his family her disgracefully past, or keep it a secret as she has done all these years.

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  • Maripat Allen: AUFSEHERIN

    Wow! This play is SO powerful, I felt like I needed a recovery period after reading it Based on a a real historical figure it presents a fictional event which will make the audience gulp and ask "What would I do?" Complex and nuanced, vivid and chilling, thought provoking and extremely impactful, it's what theater at it's best is all about.

    Wow! This play is SO powerful, I felt like I needed a recovery period after reading it Based on a a real historical figure it presents a fictional event which will make the audience gulp and ask "What would I do?" Complex and nuanced, vivid and chilling, thought provoking and extremely impactful, it's what theater at it's best is all about.