Mark Sacharoff/Jewish Remembrance Theater

Playwright

1004 Melrose Ave.
Melrose Park, PA 19027
(215) 635-1190

The Jewish Remembrance Theater seeks to create and foster plays about the writers, composers, directors, actors, and painters of the great Jewish-European culture, 1900-1939, destroyed by the Holocaust. We hope to sponsor a playwriting contest with an award of $20,000 for this purpose.

Current Work

My play, A Magazine at Terezin, will receive a production at Keneseth Israel Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., January 10, 2010.

We will present my latest play, Between Two Worlds, in February, 2010, at the Elkins Park library.

In mid-March, 2010, the Chestnut Hill Academy in Chestnut Hill, PA, will produce A Magazine at Terezin again. Subsequent presentations of this play are planned at various high schools in the Philadelphia area. The play is about some 15-year-old boys who published 22 issues of a magazine while imprisoned at Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, 1942-4.

Plays

Tempest in Turdyba (1978)

Wolf Larsen devises a scheme to use the administration offices of Immaculata-Baptist-Shalom University as a brothel, 11:00 p.m.-7:00 a.m., with some women-students as the hostesses.

The Finest People (1994)

Three German scholars become Nazis in 1934 and break off their
relations with their Jewish mentor and friend.

Buber in Search of Himself

Martin Buber’s struggle to establish his intellectual identity during his early career, 19004-1924.

An adaptation-revision of Turgenev’s The Bachelor

Mischa, a 48-year-old bachelor, is proud of his success in bringing together Masha, 24, his ward, and Petya, his 28-year-old friend, but Petya keeps putting off the marriage. (A reading June 6, 2009, at the Lion Theater, New York City, sponsored by the Resonance Ensemble.)

An adaptation-revision of Molar-Wodehouse’s comedy, The Play’s the Thing (2005), with a primarily Jewish cast

A Jewish theater troupe faces disaster when their composer’s fiancée is heard in a compromising situation in the adjoining room with one of the actors.

An adaptation-revision of Molnar’s The Swan (2006), with an all-Jewish cast

Alexandra, 24, the exquisite daughter of an upper-middle class Jewish family living in a suburb of Berlin, expects to marry Albert, owner of the largest department store in Vienna, but he keeps avoiding a proposal, while she gradually falls in love with her 41-year old tutor.

An adaptation-revision of Moliere’s The Misanthrope (2007)

A Magazine at Terezin (2008): (see above)

Between Two Worlds (2009)

A Jewish-American immigrant family of the lower middle class faces a number of problems adjusting to life in a New England town. The most notable of these is the son’s fervent desire to attend an elite college--a desire that is beyond his father’s means and against his wishes.