| Silence Not, A Love Story |
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| Published: Gihon River Press |
SILENCE NOT, A Love Story
by Cynthia L. Cooper
a full length play
with an introduction by Elizabeth Holtzman; Afterword
by Dr. Marilyn Frost; an essay on the World of the Play by Cynthia L. Cooper; Bibliography; Timeline; Photographs.
"Everyone loves a love story, especially one
with a happy ending, and award-winning playwright and journalist Cynthia L. Cooper’s latest play, a forty-four scene
two-act, is a whopper. Silence Not, A Love Story tells the improbable tale — based on a true story."
It is about a man and a woman, as a prologue by Elizabeth Holtzman explains, whose "very humanity lay in their acts of
resisting evil. They could no more remain passive, removed, and quiescent than they could stop breathing… Without those
who stand up for justice, where would the rest of us be?”
Eleanor Bader -- Read more at Feminist Review
"Cooper’s story is a story of courage, for all
ages, all sexes, all cultures – reminding us, that courage sees no boundaries.”
Janis F. Kearney, former Personal Diarist to President
William J. Clinton, author, Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir.
"This powerful play recreates in moving drama the
(anti-Nazi) struggles and the desperate attempt of good people to remain moral in the most immoral of societies. Powerful,
poignant and penetrating, it will move those who read it and cause them to ponder the sources of
courage and resistance."
Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Jewish Studies and Director
of the Sigi Zieirng Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, American Jewish University.
“Cynthia Cooper is a powerful playwright.
Silence Not, A Love Story will spark a fabulous discussion on resistance today. Gisa and Paul have
incredible moral courage and a lifelong love that sustains them through a terrible period in history when
society failed. Each of us needs to consider our character at every moment – are we perpetrator, victim, helper,
bystander, or resister? Every high school student should read this play.”
Maureen McNeil, Director of Education, The Anne Frank
Center USA
“Rooted in early twentieth century Europe and strikingly similar
to contemporary struggles all over the globe, Cynthia Cooper’s Silence Not, A Love Story offers readers
and audiences the always necessary integration of art and politics. She’s a skillful playwright who uses history,
with its relentless examination of our lives, as a rich source for theater.”
Judith Arcana: poet, writer and scholar. She is
the author of "hat if your mother,"as well as "4th Period English,"and "Grace Paley’s Life Stories, A Literary
Biography."
Articles:
EVENTS:
- June 2010: Book Signing, Holocaust
Museum, Washington DC
- April 2010: Centre Stage, Jerusalem,
Israel.
- Feb 9, 2010. Staged Reading, St.
Paul, MN. 6 pm at the Wellstone Center in W.St.Paul, part of The Konopka Institute of the University of Minnesota, Celebration
of the Life and Legacy of Gisa Konopka, free dinner & reception at 5 pm. For info: cyn@cyncooperwriter.net
- Dec 2009. Justice for All Radio Show:
'Resisting Tyranny in 1929 and Today.' Listen here.
- Nov 2009. Bob Marone, WVOX Radio.
- Oct 2009. Talk, Eastern Monroe Public
Library, Stroudsburg, PA. Click to read MORE.
- May 2009. Book Expo, Gihon River Press, NYC. Feb 2009. at The Anne Frank Center USA in NYC, directed by Joanne Edelmann.
- Feb 2009. Reading at the Anne
Simley Theatre, Hamline University, MN, directed by Carolyn Levy.
- April 2008. Geraldine Page Center for the Arts,
NYC, coordinated by Angelica Torn.
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