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‘You need to know about evil to play the Happiest Man on Earth’

JL;DR SUMMARY Kenneth Tigar, an accomplished 82-year-old actor, embodies Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku in the one-man play "The Happiest Man on Earth" in London. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorForgivenessTheaterSurvivalHateNazi Concentration CampsEddie JakuKenneth TigarThe Happiest Man On Earth

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Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
"After an acclaimed run with the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts last summer, Tigars solo rendition of the life story of Jaku has arrived in London, where he is delivering a 90-minute emotional tour de force to audiences at Southwark Playhouse."
London, United Kingdom
"After an acclaimed run with the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts last summer, Tigars solo rendition of the life story of Jaku has arrived in London, where he is delivering a 90-minute emotional tour de force to audiences at Southwark Playhouse."
Ukraine
"He remembers asking his maternal grandmother why she emigrated from Ukraine to the US in 1906, and her blunt response was: Because they were killing us."
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
"The play follows Jaku, a Jewish boy born from Leipzig, Germany, who one day in 1938 returned from boarding school to visit his family, and found no one home."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"As a student, he got suckered into starting up a cabaret in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which gave Jane Curtin from the original cast of Saturday Night Live her first gig."
Vienna, Austria
"When his girlfriend at that time got a Fulbright scholarship to Vienna, Tigar decided to join her."
France
"he joined a German theatre company in the Austrian capital, with which he toured France."
New York, United States
"He went to New York, one thing led to another, and he ended up in Los Angeles for 30 years, landing movie roles in the Lethal Weapon franchise, Primal Fear, The Avengers and TV series L.A. Heat and House of Cards."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"He went to New York, one thing led to another, and he ended up in Los Angeles for 30 years, landing movie roles in the Lethal Weapon franchise, Primal Fear, The Avengers and TV series L.A. Heat and House of Cards."

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