A concert version

Date: 14 September 2008

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1

Price: £12 / £10 (Full time Students and Spiro Ark

membership card holders only)

Renya

A true love story of pathos and humour about a Jewish family's struggle to survive the Holocaust.

Words by Michael Shocket, Music by Dudley Cohen

Sandra Lee, Soprano Joan Cohen, Alto

Richard Tannenbaum, Bass Robert Brody, Tenor

Adele Gordon, Clarinet Dudley Cohen, Piano

Michael Shocket, Narrator

This true story of how Michael Shocket met his wife Irene (Renya) while serving in the liberation army in Brussels. Irene and three of her four sisters were hidden from the Nazis in a convent and brought up as Catholics. The story tells how one of the sisters, her husband and unborn baby perished in Auschwitz and how the rest avoided being deported.