- The White Rose (play)
"The White Rose" was written by
Lillian Garrett-Groag and premiered in 1991 at theOld Globe Theatre inSan Diego , Calif. The play chronicles the arrest, interrogation and eventual execution of a group ofUniversity of Munich students who protested theNazi regime at the height ofWorld War II . The students assigned to themselves the nameWhite Rose .The play has roles for seven males and one female. The strongest roles belong to [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mohr_%28Polizist%29 Robert Mohr] , the head of the Munich
Gestapo , andSophie Scholl , one of the students. Mohr, moved by Scholl's passion (and mindful that she is German, but not Jewish), attempts to save her by giving her a chance to recant, but she refuses. The play ends with a spotlight on Scholl snapping off, symbolizing her beheading, and Mohr musing, "The most we can hope for is to get by. Heroes and ... ("carefully") demagogues will always shake things up for a while, but if we're clever, we'll still be here when they're gone." At which point, a Gestapo investigator attempts to be encouraging, noting that people like Mohr "are of enormous use to the Reich." Thus concludes the theme of the play, that people, not monsters, are responsible for great communal disasters, and each of those people had a "moment of choice," according to Garrett-Groag in her "Foreword".cite book
last =Garrett-Groag
first =Lillian
authorlink = Lillian Garrett-Groag
title =The White Rose
publisher =Dramatist's Play Service
year=1993
id = ISBN 0822213524]"The White Rose" won the AT&T Award for New American Plays.
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