A mysterious photo album arrives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, revealing chilling images of SS officers at Auschwitz living seemingly ordinary lives. Based on a true story, Here There Are Blueberries unfolds like a gripping historical detective story — one that asks unsettling questions about memory, humanity, and how evil often looks painfully normal. Haunting, and impossible to shake.
WHY SEE THIS SHOW: Created by the acclaimed Tectonic Theater Company, which first captured the moving and urgent THE LARAMIE PROJECT, HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES is dramatized documentary theater at its finest.
The LA Times called it “The greatest detective story ever written.” A Pulitzer Prize finalist, this true story is fascinating and engaging. It provides ample contemporary resonance as well as unique insight into one of the darkest times in recent history. A true ensemble piece, combined with a captivating story, makes this a perfect Warehouse Theatre play.
Here are two quotes from the show that capture the “why” astutely:
“Asserting ordinariness in the face of the extraordinary is, in itself, an immensely political act.”
“[The photos] makes us see the SS as people–and that is difficult for us. We want to think of them as monsters so we don’t have to look in the mirror. Sometimes when people look at the world of Auschwitz, they focus on the killing and they forget that the killing is the result of a long process. No genocide starts with the killing. Every genocide starts with words.”
WHO SHOULD SEE THIS SHOW? If you like these things, you’ll like this: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Zone of Interest, The Act of Killing, Under the Banner of Heaven.
