Yoga meets the Nazis. Group meditation meets theater. Sound like something you’d want to avoid? You might be surprised. Diane Samuels’s As Long As We Are Breathing follows the Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman on a harrowing journey—from her perilous childhood and hiding in Slovakia to her adulthood in London, where she begins to process grief and trauma through yoga and meditation. In this play, breath serves as a powerful metaphor. “Proof of survival,” the critic Mark Lawson writes in The Guardian, “but, in a sequence where Miriam hides in a flat in Slovakia while Nazi soldiers stamp [up] the stairwell, respiration may be a fatal giveaway.” A group mindfulness exercise occurring early in the show fosters a sense of community, engaging multiple senses and bringing depth to a subject that demands it. —Jeanne Malle