Charlotte Salomon- Life or Theatre? Vintage Hard Cover Art Bookc1981. Autobiographical in 769 pictures along with accompanying painted texts, constitutes a total of 1,325 pages. Life or Theatre is the work of a young woman who was driven by persecution and war to give artistic form to the essentials of her life. Her conviction that profound pain is inseparable from the life of man, and her struggles with that pain, were attitudes that were to prove characteristic of the generation that reached maturity after the