THEATER - "Lemkin's House"

Real-life lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the subject of the excellent and politically resonant drama, Lemkin’s House, is remembered for having coined the word "genocide" in the 1940s. If we believe playwright Catherine Filloux, not much has changed since Lemkin passed away in the late '50s: we are as passive about genocide today as we were then. To polarize her polemic, Filloux imagines what would happen if Lemkin were to return from the grave as guilt-ridden, wry, and jovial as ever. Uttering lines like "There’s no reason why you can’t continue lobbying Congress when you’re dead," John Daggett, as Lemkin, finds not only these laughable eccentricities, but also the man’s humanity, passion, and frustration.

Read on at [Show Business Weekly]