Ms Simone Z Gad

Molested at the Movies: Survivor's Child (Volume 1) Ms Simone Z Gad Original edition

Molested At The Movies-Copyright Simone Gad 2014/All Rights Reserved, WGA and Library Of Congress Registered, is a performance-art spoken word play of monologues/vignettes about my growing up as a child of holocaust survivor parents from Poland, our immigration to the US from Brussels, Belgium where I was born, and my stage-mom getting me into show-biz at the tender age of 4 upon our arrival via Ellis Island. Molested is a dark story with humorous elements,and some French, German, Polish, Yiddish references. It also includes 2 songs from the 1920s, both of which created a major impact upon me during my early years in Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles and Hollywood. I was forced to sing one of them at auditions from childhood thru my teenage years, relentlessly. The other song is in French. My mom would sing it over and over again with her heavy Polish accent, which haunted me. I did my spoken-word show on-tour in the United States and in Brussels, Belgium from 1998 through 2013, and have included reviews/articles/catalog excerpts as documentations of my performances and exhibitions at the end of my art-text publication. This spoken word performance story has some hand-written notes, some of which is not easy to read-because it's an art work and is meant to be so. It is not traditional writing and is experimental in nature. Molested at the Movies is an homage to my family who suffered in the concentration camps and forced labor during the Shoah. It is also dedicated to my brother and holocaust survivor parents who passed away during the 1990s, and to my aunt and uncle who died shortly thereafter. I want to thank Karen Atkinson for helping me to edit my book for publication. She is amazing!