{"product_id":"walking-to-buchenwald-tom-jacobson-9780881457490","title":"Walking To Buchenwald","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In life, death, and in playwright Tom Jacobson's world view, these familiar five stages to acceptance are missing the one that is most important for survival: Laughing. Life is funny. People are funny. If God exists, He, She, They, or It must have a sense of humor--however twisted and brutal.\u003cbr\u003e The 'shattering comedy' Jacobson promises in the press notes for WALKING TO BUCHENWALD sneaks up on you....\u003cbr\u003e ...We know Jacobson has a deeper story simmering....\u003cbr\u003e The fractured core of the show's universe reveals itself gradually. Naturalistic scenes and behaviors take on increasingly surrealistic elements. We start to wonder what exactly is going on. Is this the end of the world? Figuratively, the answer is yes. Literally? We're not sure. But all bets are off. And yet... somehow, in a final, quiet, awful, loving gesture of human generosity, Jacobson gives us hope--and a lot to think about.\u003cbr\u003e BUCHENWALD is about identity. It takes a wide, nonjudgmental look at what it means to be a parent, a spouse, a child; what it feels like to be in a relationship with a partner who is your temperamental opposite; to be a liberal in a Red State; an American in a Trump-like western world; someone dying in a world obsessed with hollow positivity; and what it means to be a European shackled to an America teeming with reemerging nativism.\u003cbr\u003e Jacobson doesn't seek to determine who is to blame for anything. None of us is to blame. All of us are to blame. Blame God. Whatever. This is our world. The way we live now, and the way we die. BUCHENWALD lingers long after the final curtain, its puzzles working their way into your dreams....\"\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Garza Bernstein, Stage And Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881457493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881457490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Tom Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435714097407,"sku":"9780881457490","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35c4a53a-cddb-4a4c-9932-98d54ef4e4a4.jpg?v=1777152215","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walking-to-buchenwald-tom-jacobson-9780881457490","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}