The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Nina Serrano

• 04 oktober 2018
• 9780997217049

Samenvatting:

The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg is a play written in 1976 by Nina Serrano, Paul Richards and Judith Binder. The Rosenbergs were an American Jewish leftist couple caught up in the famous “Atomic spies case” of the 1950’s. They were accused by the government of stealing atomic secrets and giving them to the former Soviet Union. Even though, as we all know today, there were no atomic secrets, the Rosenbergs died in the electric chair for the crime of conspiracy to commit espionage, leaving behind two small boys in 1953. The play tells the Rosenberg’s story in their own words, taken almost entirely from the transcript of their trial and from their letters. It was performed on stages, on television and radio in the late 1970’s. Nina Serrano played Ethel Rosenberg. Paul Richards played David Greenglass and Judith Binder directed.

Now, decades later, Estuary Press has published the play including the original 1976 script and the 2016 Revised Script by Jacob Justice, of Bryan, Texas. A second 21st Century production is also taking place in Toronto, Canada in November, 2018, produced at the Studio Theater in the Toronto Center for the Arts. The book contains two introductions by Nina Serrano, "How the Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Came to Be", and "21st Century Revival of the Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg."