When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Max and Irma Czerner decided to flee Prague. Max offered a Nazi officer their luxury apartment in exchange for five exit visas, for the two parents and their three small children. On the day of the exchange, the Nazi showed up –with three visas. Fifty years later in their Chicago apartment, hidden behind a piano, their family found a hidden box of letters...

Letters from Prague tells, as it is happening and in their own words, the harrowing drama of one family’s escape from the Holocaust, which culminates two generations later at the U.S. Embassy in the Czech Republic.

Letters from Prague is generously supported by funds from the CJP Arts & Culture Initiative and by Facing History and Ourselves. It is supported by the Jewish Arts Collaborative and Gann Academy.

What is a Workshop Presentation?
As a company that creates new works, we include our audience in our creative process. Midway through development, we present a public showing of our “work-in-progress”. It’s staged and uses a basic form of the set, but there are no costumes, and the sound is a rough idea of what we’ll do. This is taking the show out for a test drive with you. We invite the audience to give feedback about the experience.

Liars & Believers is a devised theatre ensemble. We create original live plays with music, movement, mask, puppet, video, clown, live bands, aerialists … pretty much anything we can get our hands on. We tell stories that explore what it means to be human in this world we share. Collaborating with audiences and artists of all kinds, we create theatrical works that invite you to open your heart, challenge your mind, and feast your senses.