Century Productions records, undated, 1983-1987

The collection contains items related to the production of "Hannah Senesh: Portrait of a Woman Warrior." These include the script, photographs (both of Senesh and the stage production), props, stage and lighting plots, costumes, and promotional material. Types of material include blueprints, clippings, correspondence, newspaper articles, notes, photographs, playbills, posters, press reviews, programs, and scripts. A treatment for a film production of the play is also located in the records. The correspondence consists of a letter from Catherine Szenes to Lori Wilner and a letter from two classmates, Olga Patcai and Magda Somjen, to Lori Wilner. The records are valuable to researchers studying Jewish theater, idealism, theater arts, and Zionism. The documents are predominantly in English, with some Hungarian. ; Donated By Perry Bruskin of Century Productions, ; Century Productions produced the one-woman show, "Hannah Senesh: Portrait of a Woman Warrior," written and directed by David Schechter and starring Lori Wilner as Senesh. The script was based on the diaries and poems of the WWII Hungarian-Jewish paratrooper Hannah Senesh, with songs and music composed and arranged by Steven Lutvak with additional music by Schecter and Elizabeth Swados. “Hannah Senesh” ran at the Cherry Hill Theater in New York City from 1984-1985 and traveled throughout the U.S. and Israel until 1987.