Here There Are Blueberries
Here There Are Blueberries is a 2018 play by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich.[1]
Summary
[edit]In 2007, a mysterious Nazi-era photo album, retrieved by a U.S. counterintelligence officer out of a trash can in 1946, arrives at the desk of Rebecca Erbelding, a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. Controversy ensues after said photo album makes headlines while a German businessman sees his own grandfather in one of the photographs online.[1][2][3][4] The play's title is the English translation of the handwritten caption Hier gibt es Blaubeeren, accompanying photos of young women – employed at the Auschwitz concentration camp as auxiliaries – enjoying bowls of blueberries.
Productions
[edit]The play, under the title The Album: Here There Be Blueberries premiered as a work in progress at the Colony Theatre in 2018.[5] The piece subsequently premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2022[6] and played at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2024.[3] The NYTW production received a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play[7] and a Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.[8] In 2025, McCarter Theatre Center launched a national tour of the production, which then traveled to The Wallis Annenberg and Berkeley Rep.[9]
Accolades
[edit]It was one of the finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[1][10]
See also
[edit]- The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer's 2023 Academy Award-winning feature similar in content
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Evans, Greg (May 6, 2024). "Eboni Booth's 'Primary Trust' Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize For Drama; Books & Music Winners Announced". Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ "Here There Are Blueberries". Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ a b "Here There Are Blueberries (Off-Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, 2024) | Playbill". Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ Bailey, Ronald (April 26, 2024). "Review: 'Here There Are Blueberries' investigates a Nazi photo album". Archived from the original on May 10, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
- ^ "The Album". Colony Theatre. Archived from the original on July 11, 2020.
- ^ "Review: La Jolla Playhouse's 'Here There Are Blueberries' a chilling examination of the roots of human cruelty". San Diego Union-Tribune. August 1, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
- ^ Culwell-Block, Logan (April 22, 2025). "2025 Drama League Awards Nominations Are Out; Read the Full List". Playbill. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
- ^ Culwell-Block, Logan (April 25, 2025). "Death Becomes Her Leads 2025 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations; Read the Full List". Playbill. Retrieved April 26, 2025.
- ^ "Here There Are Blueberries". Here There Are Blueberries. Retrieved May 5, 2025.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes". Archived from the original on May 8, 2024. Retrieved May 10, 2024.