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leaflets distributed by the group,
because she thought of the students'
efforts as possibly the most dramatic
case of resistance she has encountered
in her extensive reading.
"Resistance movements are usually
large and have networks," Groag says.
"Here, we're talking about five kids who
worked right inside the system, not from
another country where they'd be safe.
"I thought that was stunning."
Universal Values
Although Groag has deep feelings for
the plight of Jews, she was not raised
in the religion of her father. Born in '
Argentina to an Italian mother, she
attended a convent school in Uruguay,
where her family relocated when she
was 4.
"I'm full of admiration for religion,
but I don't like fundamentalism of any
kind," says Groag, who describes her
family's attitudes as secular.
"That these kids actually put their
beliefs to work and said you cannot
possibly love God or consider yourself
a spiritual human being if you don't
put [that spirit] to the test is what I
find so admirable in them."
Before stepping onto the profession-
al stage, Groag continued her formal
education in the United States, first at
Lake Forest College and then
Northwestern University, where she
earned a doctoral degree in French lit-
erature with a dissertation specializa-
tion in French Theater.
Starting out as an actress, she
debuted in Shakespearean roles with
the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.
Her acting took her to many theaters
until five years ago, when directing
and writing began to control her time.
"Acting is the easiest because you
have the least responsibilities to attend
to," Groag says. "It's a great opportu-
nity to learn new ways of working,
which I'm always interested in doing.
"Directing gives the possibility to
almost shape the entire experience. It's
exhausting, but it's nice to be able to
make a clear, concise, coherent state-
ment and present it in front of an
audience.
"Writing is creating new worlds."
Diverse worlds have become the
subjects of Groag's own plays. The
Ladies of the Camellias is about the
theater and its value. The Magic Fire
recalls her family's experiences in
Argentina.
"I'm not interested in domestic plays
because they bore me to death," says
Groag. "I can't go to the theater and
watch two Yuppies who can't stay
together.
"The theater should be for enormous
subjects of universal value with fantas-
tic language and phenomenal actors.
What you see on stage you should not
be able to see on the screen or TV"
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Groag's preference for a separation in
staged and filmed works hasn't exactly
come to pass with her own play. The
story conveyed in The White Rose, with
a more biographical slant, has reached
the German screen with the same title.
The Last Five Days, an American
made-for-TV movie with another per-
spective on the same people, has not
yet been presented.
"My play is 90 percent real," Groag
says. "The exchanges are elaborated
for the stage,.and the flashbacks are
made up.
"We have no idea of what music
[these students] listened to or what
else might have happened to them.
What we know is from what they
wrote and did. I tried to present them
as kids of their time."
In Germany, the students intro-
duced in the play are memorialized
with public monuments and cere-
monies. They are remembered yearly
on the anniversary of their deaths with
a gathering at Perlacher Cemetery out-
side Munich.
"Why we don't know more about
these five kids [in the United States] is
a very interesting subject, and that's
what attracted me to the story," says
Groag, who will be directing an opera
at Lincoln Center while her play is
produced in Michigan.
"The only people who know about
them really well now are the Germans
"It would be wonderful to dedicate
the Ann Arbor production of The
White Rose to Daniel Pearl. He got
killed because he was a Jew, and I can-
not tell you how distressing this is to
me. We can't allow the savages to con-
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