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No Time To Weep
The Matrix
7657 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles
Lucy Deutsch – a child Holocaust survivor – brings to life her experience in Auschwitz through her art of writing and poetry, with songs that that will forever live in the hearts and minds of those who hear them. Set in Hungry in 1944, Lucy Deutsch, at the age of 14, is removed with her family from their home and placed in a ghetto, from where they are sent to Auschwitz. She is the only member of her family to survive. Enduring her ordeal through determination, strength, bull-headedness, and a child’s fearless innocence, she comes of age when, coming home after Auschwitz, she realizes she is no longer a child and cannot play with her friends any more. The words of her songs tell the story, while the music has all the compassion of a young spirit. Her gift to perform her art and bring it to the stage is testimony to what was lost in the Holocaust. Having survived the worst of inhumanities, this musical illuminates the courage we gain to reaffirm the art of living and create a better world.
Thru - Jun 3, 2012
Price: $25
Show Type: Musical
Box Office: 323-852-1445
Running Time: 120 minutes
www.matrixtheatre.com
Review Round-Up
| Los Angeles Times - Somewhat Recommended
"...Still, at the risk of sounding churlish, “Weep” needs work. Pyres’ direction dooms these intrepid Jews to wander aimlessly, largely devoid of adequate blocking or compositional focus. And the second act, which chronicles Lucy’s fortunes after Auschwitz, is fuzzily delineated and anticlimactic."
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Backstage - Not Recommended
"...Ultimately, though, the unwieldy material can’t support the talents and good intentions involved."
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LA Splash - Recommended
"...Standing ovations at the Matrix Theatre greeted the actors of Lucy Deutsch’s Holocaust life story, No Time To Weep. The moving drama, told in song, and set in Hungary of 1944, tells the story of young Lucy, snatched from her home and shipped off to Auschwitz camp, where she is thrown apart from her parents and siblings."
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Examiner - Not Recommended
"...Not since Mel Brooks’ outrageous “Springtime for Hitler” has there been a Holocaust musical as ill-conceived and badly performed as No Time to Weep, now onstage at L.A.’s Matrix Theater."
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