'Playing for Time' will leave you limp - but you won't forget

Milton wrote, ' The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of a hell ...'

The Jewish women, rounded up by the Nazis and sent to the hell of Auschwitz to die, did not make it a heaven, but somehow survived.

'Playing for Time' is the story of the human spirit and celebration of life.

It's based on the autobiography of Fania Fenelon, a popular Parisian singer and member of the Resistance, who was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. She was ordered to become part of an orchestra made up of prisoners forced to play for German officers. On occasion they were made to play for new prisoners' arrival to enhance the vicious and evil deception that civilized treatment, not gas chambers, was to be their fate.

Kim Crow's Fania dominates the stage . .. Remarkable vocal expressiveness, intensely shiny, expressive eyes and silent gestures all combine to produce a memorable characterization.