Τhe Crazy Frogs

A talented young creator, Mélody Mourey, whose plays sell out in Paris and have earned her both nominations and wins at the Molière Awards, directs the Greek première of her play The Crazy Frogs (original title: Les Crapauds fous) at the NTNG. Mélody Mourey writes and directs a wonderful tragi-comic play which takes a story that is true but unknown to the general public as its backdrop: an incredible trick two doctors played on the Nazis. In 1990s New York City, a psychology student visits Stanislaw, an elderly doctor, so he can talk to her about her grandfather Eugene Lazowski (also a doctor) and his activities during World War Two. Stanislav will share an adventurous and fascinating story with her, describing the ingenious plan that he and Lazowski devised to outwit the Nazis and save the lives of thousands of Jewish residents in Rozwadów, a village in Poland.

The play is based on the true story of the two doctors who resisted the Nazis, using the typhoid vaccine as evidence that the region was infected with the deadly disease. italic text is an adventure-comedy that uses humour and sensitivity to highlight the strength of people who accept the risks and resist, daring to defend humanity and justice. Although the author presents the tragic events in a light-hearted way, she nonetheless creates an original and daring work which poses an important question: at what point will people stop obeying authority, when that authority is absurd, and to what extent does each new era need its own “crazy frogs”?