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Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination. 'Every time we put on a show - sold out three weeks in advance!...People who knew next day they'd be on a train to the camps, the night before they'd put on their finery and come to a play.'First seen in Israel in 1984 and premiered in Britain in David Lan's version in 1989 at the National Theatre, Ghetto won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play. It has since been seen in Berlin, Vienna, Cologne, Toronto, Oslo, Paris, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles and New York.This edition includes Jeremy Sams' songs and music from the play, as well as extracts from the original ghetto diary.