"The Pianist of Willesden Lane" Berkeley Rep
I do believe that, as it was stated today, the Berkeley Rep has to be one of the best university theaters in the country. This production is inventive and original, employing the interplay of a pianist and her music, and her narrative of her mother's life. It is Krystalnacht in Vienna, the same that Lili Kahlaer of Princeton escaped, first to London, and then to NYC and then to Princeton...having been paid for, as was Einstein, by someone like in the Spielberg movie. Curious that 11/9 started the holocaust, and 9/11 started America's...national crisis through its first attack on its borders. Compelling to hear these survivor's stories as her parents were both killed in Auschwitz, one of the worst death camps but she and her two sisters were reunited in London. I have always been so drawn to these stories, to these people; I somehow think still that my mother was an Alsace Jew. She looked Jewish, perhaps even acted so. I don't know...a myste...
