PRAISE FOR LEMKIN’S HOUSE

"Catherine Filloux has brought Raphael Lemkin, who first identified and led the effort to criminalize genocide, to life for audiences who otherwise might never understand how important this man's contribution has been to humankind.   We all need to walk into Lemkin's House and remind ourselves that we have to finish what Lemkin began - to end genocide forever." 
David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues

“Over the past decade Catherine Filloux has created a powerful new theatrical sub-genre; plays exploring genocide. She avoids the polemic in favor of stories of individuals, translating the overwhelming horror of mass murder into gripping human tragedy.”
     Elizabeth Becker, award-winning New York Times, Washington Post and NPR
           reporter and author of "When the War was Over"

"Lemkin's House is more than just morally provocative and intellectually stunning theater - it also lays bare one of the greatest failures of imagination in history, the failure of us all to collectively imagine that our fellow human beings are worth saving from mass slaughter."
Craig Etcheson, principal founder, Documentation Center of Cambodia and author of "After the Killing Fields"

 “One way to understand some of the worst horrors of the last sixty years is to be immersed in the story of the struggles of one man to define genocide and create a world that would stand up against this crime.  The play reminds us of how far we yet have to go.”
      Ruth Messinger, president, American Jewish World Service

“Lemkin’s House is a thoughtful reflection on the terrible force of violence across cultures and times.”
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University and author of “When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda”

"It is beautiful and stirring to a change so desperately needed in one of humanity's greatest unremitting shames: genocide. Even more powerful than the deft incisions made into our buffered sense of the world around us is Filloux’s use of humor. She treats us to a profound night in the theater.”
Yael Danieli, Ph.D., director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children and representative to the United Nations of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies