Under the Skin
(a drama based on real events)

Written by: Jonathan Calderon
Directed by: Rakefet Benjamin

Tel Aviv during the first Gulf War. A young German reporter knocks on the door of an elderly Holocaust survivor and starts questioning her about the secret affair that took place between her and her SS officer. Throughout the play, the Tel Aviv scene is cut into flashbacks to the concentration camp in which the reporter from Germany also plays the prisoner Charlotte while the elderly Holocaust survivor becomes the Nazi officer.

Originally staged by Tel Aviv’s Tzavta Theater, “Under the Skin” is based on an amazing true love story between Ilse Coleman, a female SS officer who wore a yellow badge and voluntarily entered the Bergen-Belsen inferno so she wouldn’t have to separate from her Jewish sweetheart, Charlotte Broad.

The play deals with the lesbian romance between a Nazi officer and the Jewish prisoner. It was written by Jonathan Calderon and based on a true story. Calderon researched the story for six years, even reading the transcript of the Nazi officer’s trial.

The tale of these two is stranger than fiction: when her prisoners were transferred to Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi officer wore a prison uniform, dressed as a Jewish prisoner, and voluntarily entered the concentration camp as well, to be with her love.

Performance a the Russian Drama Theater in Vilnius on May 11 and at the Klaipėda Drama Theater in Klaipėda May 12.

Tickets available from tiketa.lt

For more information, call 8 687 47339

More information about original play here.