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How Many Others

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​How Many Others is a play written by Kristi Good, directed by Willow Jade Norton, and produced in collaboration with both the Carnegie Mellon University Department of History’s Jack Buncher Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies, and Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.

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This particular workshop was the first time the piece had ever been acted out, and was put on to continue raising funds 

for further workshops or productions. With the help of a language coach for Hebrew pronunciation and a media/lighting designer, the first production of How Many Others came to life. I had the opportunity to be the Production Stage Manager for this staged reading, in which I helped mount the production for its three performance run.

 

This documentary play is made up of four Jewish women who each play two parts: the voice of an experience and a real person. The story is led by the character, and very real person, Marta Havryshko: a Ukrainian PHD researcher on Holocaust related sexual violence. The piece is woven together by her speeches, alongside written scenes based on journals of women in Ukraine during the recent war. It is a beautiful and haunting tale of what life for Jewish women is like during times of crises, and sheds a humane light on very tough events. 

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“I looked at that crumbled house.

I said that this is a witness!

Each sunflower that grows from the soil

After Russian soldiers have died with seeds in their pockets,

Each petal will be a witness!

 

And we will flourish!”

 

- How Many Others, Scene 6

Photos By: JD Hopper

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