SHOAH Opens January 21, 2022 – Performances take place on Fridays and Weekends through February 6, 2022

Fauquier Community Theatre presents the World Premiere of Dr. Harry Kantrovich’s stage adaptation of the Holocaust documentary SHOAH Fridays and weekends from Jan 21 – Feb 6, 2022. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm, Sunday matinees are at 2 pm. The theater is located at 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton Virginia. While the theater is in a developed community now, in 1942 the 696 acre area was built as the United States Army Signals Intelligence site.

Shoah is another word for the Holocaust. It comes from Hebrew, and literally means catastrophic upheaval. The Holocaust, or Shoah, refers to the Nazi party’s attempt in the late 1930s and early 1940s to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe. Shoah is a French documentary film about the Holocaust directed by Claude Lanzmann.The film was released in April 1985, eleven years in the making, it was over 9 hours long. The film presents Lanzmann’s interviews, with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during his visits to Holocaust sites around Germany and Europe.

Lanzmann released the entire text of the film as an oral history of the Holocaust in conjunction with the release of the film in the United States.Dr. Kantrovich remarks, “World War II, in particular The Holocaust is a passion of mine. I lost family in the Holocaust and those that I knew who survived, I could always see the pain in their eyes, it never left. When I first saw the 9.5 hour documentary in 1985, I was mesmerized. As I got more enveloped in the theatre, I knew I wanted to adapt the transcript to stage.”

The month of January was chosen to debut the stage version at Fauquier Community Theatre since January 27 is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). Since 2005, the UN and its member states have held commemoration ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism.

A special thank you to WILL Interactive Inc as the show sponsor for Fauquier Community Theatre’s production of SHOAH. Performances of SHOAH will take place on Fridays and weekends between January 21 – February 6, 2022 at Fauquier Community Theatre located at 4225 Aiken Drive, Warrenton, VA. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm, Sunday matinees are at 2 pm. Tickets may be purchased online here: SHOAH Tickets or by calling 540-349-8760.