The King of Hearts Is Off Again"

Wed 26 Nov to Sun 30 Nov. La MaMa E.T.C, 74 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003, New York, 10014. La MaMa, (212) 475-7710. $13-$18. Jonathan Slaff & Associates - [website][email][events]

Piotr Borowski, a student and collaborator of Jerzy Grotowski and co-founder of Gardzienice Theatre, has created a stage adaptation of "Chasing the King of Hearts" by Hannah Kroll. The book is a 2007 bestseller of spiritual survival in the fateless universe of the Holocaust. Borowski's play, "The King of Hearts is Off Again," is a memory piece with physical theater that has been presented in California and the Midwest. It will be presented by La MaMa E.T.C. for its East Coast debut November 26 to 30, 2014, performed by actors from Warsaw's Studium Teatralne, where it was developed. The play is the real-life story of a Jewish woman, Izolda Regenberg, who set out to save her husband from the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz by disguising herself and living as an