The Book Thief single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012 2012 FOS: Steppenwolf Theatre; http://www.steppenwolf.org/Plays-Events/productions/index.aspx?id=570
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y The Book Thief Markus Zusak , 2005 single work novel 'It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery.So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.' Source: Libraries Australia. (Sighted 30/10/08).
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Abstract

'Liesel Meminger is a young girl struggling to survive in Nazi Germany. Her life is filled with risk and danger but her love of books guides her through a brutal world. Death watches over her, fascinated by humankind's will to live. The Book Thief looks at the terrible cost of violence, bearing witness to our compassion and complicity. When Death tells a story, you listen.'

Source: Steppenwolf Theatre Company website, http://www.steppenwolf.org
Sighted: 24/10/2012

Notes

  • The 2012 Steppenwolf production was presented as 'part of Now Is The Time, a citywide initiative to stop youth violence and intolerance, and in partnership with the Chicago Public Library's One Book, One Chicago'.

    Source: Steppenwolf Theatre Company website, http://www.steppenwolf.org/
    Sighted: 24/10/2012

Production Details

  • World premiere produced by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, 20 October - 11 November 2012. Director: Hallie Gordon

Publication Details of Earliest Known Version

First known date: 2012
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Subjects:
  • Death
  • Books
  • Survival
  • World War II
  • Jewish people
Settings:
  • Germany
  • 1939-1945