The Jewish Wife

I directed Brecht's short play The Jewish Wife  for JW3 in April 2018, commemorating the Jewish memorial day for victims of the Holocaust.  

Judith Keith is leaving. People are already talking. Amsterdam. Only for a couple of weeks. On the evening of her departure, after she has phoned friends, realatives and aquaintances, she has one last conversation with her husband. They say good bye and he hands her the fur coat. 

With Margarete Steffin, Brecht collected material from interviews, testimonies and newspaper articles depicting the everyday life in fascist Germany.  It is drafted to analyse the human condition and behaviour under the force of dictatorship – being watched and silenced, the mistrust and fear. Open communication is dangerous, the dictatorship infiltrates the private spheres of everyone’s lives and influences relationships, families and friendships, intimacy is made impossible.