Hitler’s Li’l Abomination
Saturday 3/3 5:30pm
Sunday 3/4 7:00pm
Wednesday 3/7 8:30pm
Friday 3/9 10:00pm
Saturday 3/10 2:30pm
$9
The Tower Lounge – 1211 N. Wishon Ave
Her father is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Her mother was in the Hitler Youth. What the devil is she…?!
Spanning three cultures and as many generations, this solo show features the Russian Front, Holocaust bedtime stories, and undercover bridge games at the Senior Center. A unique, irreverent, humorous, TRUE story of one legacy of war and ethnic conflict. You are cordially invited to tea and swastikas.
This is a very funny, sharply written show. Your sense of irony will be doing back flips. –David Ford, The Marsh Theater, San Francisco
Berkeley, California
Solo Performance, 60 minutes, rated PG-13
A one-person show embodying a whole family, full of irony and change. Wonderfully acted with a powerful message as well as lots of laughs.
Very well done. Well-written and well-performed. Must see.
My favorite of the fest!!
I really wanted to like this, and a lot of it was fascinating – especially that it provoked thoughts about history. But I thought the personal story – which is the basis – and the overall message got a little muddied. I also had trouble keeping up with the tons of relatives and who she was portraying when she portrayed them at times. Let’s face it, doing a show about the Holocaust is no piece of cake, and if I had that lineage I’d want to do something with it, too, to explore it. I’m just not sure she succeeded in what she was trying to do. Or maybe I’m not sure of what she was trying to do.
Thought provoking complicated subject matter handled deftly and hysterically by this talented solo performing artist. The show opened my eyes up to the complicated circumstances of both a Nazi youth and a holocaust survivor. Neither was painted as completely innocent or completely a victim. How true to life as few of us are.
An incredible story! Funny, moving, thought-provoking. I enjoyed learning about the different cultural views through the eyes and voices of different family members (love the Aunt!). And I have never heard a bed time story quite like the one her father told…
Check out a review of this show in Kings River Life Magazine’s Rogue Reviews http://kingsriverlife.com/03/03/rogue-reviews-2012/
Lorie
As a university history professor I started out fairly skeptical about this show. While both Donald Munro and one reviewer here note that there could be some tighter writing (and I don’t disagree) I still think this is a fabulously funny show about a very difficult topic. She manages to make an extremely serious topic funny without getting the history completely wrong–no mean feat. This was a great show–one of our favorites this year. Definitely worth your time and your Rogue Bucks!
Powerful and insightful. Not a comedy but you do get a few laughs along the way. Real stories and real lives. A story about reconciliation and forgiveness. For the older- more mature- audience. Worth your bucks!
What a fantastic show! I was captivated from start to finish by the way the performer was able to make characters (mostly family members), that might in less capable hands fall flat or seem cliche, come alive in believeable and compelling ways. The show was both funny and
poignant, at times deeply moving, approaching a difficult and often overdone subject in a unique and thought-provoking way. A must-see.
This is a great show. Annette takes a very complex and painful subject and treats it with both full honesty and deep compassion. Masterful. She really nails it! Having friends who grew up in Holocaust-damaged families, and being myself a professor of German, I am impressed by how much she “gets right” and can “get it across” during her show. Applause!! Go see it, or whatever else she does.