Concentration
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What do you think about when both the past and present are unthinkable? Think hard. Concentrate.

Concentration


Concentration is an adaptation of a book of poems written as a dramatic monologue by a young poet from inside a World War II death camp. Fifty short, spare poems, voiced by five actors and accompanied by live musical interludes and striking visual effects, serve as a kind of journal—an imagined response to all-too-real and yet unthinkable events. Concentration is a dramatic meditation on keeping oneself alive, body and soul, as though our uncertain past were able to speak with clarity and compassion to our uncertain present.

What do you think about when both the past and present are unthinkable? Think hard. Concentrate.

Concentration


Concentration is an adaptation of a book of poems written as a dramatic monologue by a young poet from inside a World War II death camp. Fifty short, spare poems, voiced by five actors and accompanied by live musical interludes and striking visual effects, serve as a kind of journal—an imagined response to all-too-real and yet unthinkable events. Concentration is a dramatic meditation on keeping oneself alive, body and soul, as though our uncertain past were able to speak with clarity and compassion to our uncertain present.

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Ruth Page Center for the Arts

1016 North Dearborn Street

Chicago, IL 60610

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