Eugenio

Northwest DC Military Center and the Seventh Street Playhouse

PRESENT A PROFESSIONALLY STAGED READING OF

EUGENIO

 As performed at the Kennedy Center, the National Press Club

and the  2008 New York Midtown Festival

July 17, 2013, 7:00 PM        

 

By

ANTHONY E. GALLO

This fact based two act drama should deals with that tragic period in Italian during the Holocaust   when 1500 hundred Jews were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.  The drama touches on the role of the Church and the Holocaust, and examines forgiveness amidst three conversions. Rome's aloof and scholarly Chief Rabbi Zolli loses faith following the apparent slaughter of his Polish family. .  He receives asylum in the Vatican, where he comes to appreciate Jesus as God suffering for humanity. The Rabbi re-finds faith and converts to Roman Catholicism. This is seen as a betrayal of his spiritual duty and a defection to the age-old enemy. Was his conversion one of conviction or merely gratitude? What does he demand at his baptism that eventually removes a major symbol of discrimination?

 

Cast

 

Rabbi Zolli                             Shanker Singham      

Rosina                                                Shirl Weaver               

Sister Angelina                      Bonnie Jourdan*      

Monsignor Hilary                  Tim Wolf                     

Colonel Schmitt                     David Weaver             

Cardinal Maglioni                 Jonathan Gadsden   

Mr. Anso                                Pat Martin                           

Narrator                                 Beatrix Whitehall                   

Sound Design                         Beatrix Whitehall     

 

*Best Supporting Actress Nomination            New York Midtown Festival 2008

 

                                               

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