Budapest 1943: Four unassuming young artists searching for meaning amidst the chaos of the Holocaust, find transcendence in the face of tragedy. Their remarkable philosophical conversations with mysterious invisible forces comes to life in this luminous one-woman performance.Based on a true storyThe drama unfolds around Gitta Mallasz's courageous attempt to save her three Jewish friends and over 100 women and children from deportation by sheltering them in a slave labor factory in the center of Budapest. As commander in charge she was successful in saving almost all of the workers.Hanna Dallos, Gitta's childhood friend and one of the workers in the factory, was the conduit for the angels' message of personal responsibility and self-awareness. Gitta and her three friends all kept detailed diaries of the poetic and highly personal teachings they experienced over a period of seventeen months from June of 1943 until their deportation in December of 1944.Gitta Mallasz survived the war and in 1960 smuggled the precious diaries into France. The dialogues were made public in 1976 as Dialogue avec L’Ange and immediately became a bestseller, but the the book in its original language (Az Angyal Vàlaszol) was banned by the Communist régime in Hungary until 1991.Shelley Mitchell is a critically acclaimed stage actress who has dedicated her professional career to bringing Talking with Angels to audiences around the world. Sean Penn calls her “The real deal!” and The Los Angeles Weekly describes her performance of the play Talking with Angels thus:“Mitchell transforms into something between a dancer and a shaman. The guiding spirits are often impish, gentle and curt in a single breath. Nothing"airy fairy" about these angels…The performance does not invite easy emotions; rather, it's an intellectually, spiritually and poetically rigorous journey into the larger meanings of life, death and incomprehensible malice. Its excruciating beauty derives from its simplicity, its purity and the veracity of its harrowing stories,”Shelley Mitchell is the artistic director of The Actors Center of San Francisco where she teaches. www.ShelleyMitchell.orgDaimon Verlag is a publishing house in Switzerland noted for their extensive collection of titles in the field of depth psychology with a focus on the work of Carl Jung. Robert Hinshaw and Lela Fischli are the principals at Daimon and both of them worked closely with Gitta Mallasz translating Talking with Angels into German and overseeing translations into over a dozen other languages.