leipzig

Wendy Graf was at the women\’s group at her synagogue when she discovered that a number of her colleagues were the children of Holocaust survivors. She became fascinated with the repercussions of the tragedy on their lives, but put aside the subject as she wrote \”Lessons,\” a play about a widower who decides to have a bar mitzvah. More recently, a person close to her developed Alzheimer\’s disease. The synchronicity of memory loss with so-called \”second-generation\” syndrome provided the raw material for Graf\’s new play, \”Leipzig,\” the latest offering of the West Coast Jewish Theater, now playing at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.