[From getwestlondon website]
How do you tell the story of a Holocaust survivor who can’t bring himself to open up about the atrocities he witnessed?
That’s the challenge which faced Gérald Garutti when he was charged with bringing to stage the remarkable tale of Haïm Lipsky.
The Polish-born Jew was a violin prodigy and survived Auschwitz after being selected for the orchestra there, but opted to work as an electrician rather than play professionally after his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp.
For Garutti the answer was simple: his task was not to write a Holocaust play in the traditional sense but one about the transcendent power of music and the succour it has provided for Lipsky and millions across the world in desperate times.
He describes the Holocaust as a “dark hole” in the middle of Haïm – In the Light of the Violin , coming to Notting Hill theatre the Print Room at the Coronet – which tells the story of Lipsky’s life from the age of eight to the 94-year-old of today.
“I wanted to convey how art, and especially music, can give a sense of meaning to our lives – especially in the darkest times,” he says.
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מוזיק אין חורבן | Music in the Holocaust 