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unusual facts about Playing for Time



Alma Rosé

Rosé's experience in Auschwitz is depicted in the controversial play "Playing for Time" by Fania Fénelon.

Max Wright

He also appeared briefly in the first and second season of the sitcom Friends, as Terry, the manager of Central Perk, played Guenter Wendt in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Dr. Josef Mengele in Playing for Time.


see also

Fania Fénelon

Arthur Miller Playing for Time: a full-length stage play; adapted from the television film by Arthur Miller; based upon the book of the same title by Fania Fenelon.

Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Playing for Time, Linda Yellen 1980, TV-movie based on Arthur Miller's stage adaptation; the source of much controversy for its choice of Vanessa Redgrave, a PLO sympathizer, to play Fania Fénelon; Fénelon opposed the not-very-Jewish-looking Redgrave on the grounds that she was miscast as well as being anti-Israeli.