She NYC Arts Summer Theater Festival - Mere Waters

Mere Waters
By Jillian Blevins

A Jewish abortion play about mothers, daughters, faith and survival through the Holocaust.

In 1944, Gynecologist Gisella Perl arrives at Auschwitz and is assigned to work as the camp doctor. She has no tools, no antiseptic, no water. Guided by two bickering biblical prophetesses, Gisella treats prisoners who have fallen pregnant; some have been assaulted, some have traded sex for life-saving goods, others just wanted to feel something aside from pain. When she realizes the scope of evil being perpetrated in the hospital, she undertakes a spiritual mission to ensure the safety and survival of the women in her care by performing secret, life-saving abortions.

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