Professor David Peimer
‘God on Trial’: Jewish Prisoners Put God on Trial in Auschwitz
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Summary
Based on Elie Wiesel’s play, The Trial of God, the BBC put on a new television play in 2008 called God on Trial starring Sir Antony Sher. In the play, God is put on trial for abandoning the Jewish people. This talk will explore the televised play and its central premise.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.