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Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis on Polish soil. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subject of the Holocaust, Grotowski's Poor Theatre and Kantor's Theatre of Death, but the author examines a deeper impact in the role that theatre played in the processes of collective disavowal to being a witness to others' suffering.In the first part, the author examines six decades of Polish theatre shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible or displaced. Particular attention is paid to the various types of distortion and the effect of 'wrong seeing' enacted in the theatre, as well as the traces of affective reception: shock, heightened empathy, indifference. In part two, Niziolek examines a range of theatrical events, including productions by Leon Schiller, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Ondrej Spišák. He considers how these productions confronted the experience of bearing witness and were profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust.The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust reveals how – by testifying about society's experience of the Holocaust – theatre has been the setting for fundamental processes taking place within Polish culture as it confronts suppressed traumatic wartime experiences and a collective identity shaped by the past.

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Grzegorz Niziolek is professor in the Department of Drama and Theatre at the Jagiellonian University and the Ludwik Solski Upper State Theatrical School in Krakow, Poland. He is Editor-in-chief of the magazine Didaskalia. His publications include Sobowtór i Utopia. Teatr Krystiana Lupy (Doppelgänger and Utopia. The Theatre of Krystian Lupa, 1997), Cialo i slowo. Szkice o teatrze Tadeusza Rózewicza (The Body and the Word. Notes on the theatre of Tadeusz Rózewicz, 2001), and Warlikowski. Extra ecclesiam (2008, published in English in 2015).Ursula Phillips is a translator of Polish literary and academic works and Honorary Research Associate of the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I The Holocaust and the Theatre1. A Theatre of Gapers2. Who was not in Auschwitz?3. Playing the Jew4. Wrongly Seen5. Without MourningPart II The Theatre and the Holocaust6. This Shameful Jewish War7. What is Unthinkable in Poland8. A Crushed Audience9. Archive of the Missing Image10. Duplicitous Spectator, Helpless SpectatorNotesBibliography

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Niziolek's book prompts its readers to profoundly question and engage with the issue of agency, from an ethical as well as a theatrical standpoint ... This book provides a rich and highly thought-provoking reading experience. * Pamietnik Teatralny *

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The book examines the impact of the Holocaust on Polish theatre from 1945 to the present. It reveals how for a society of 'witnesses', theatre in Poland facilitates both collective remembrance and forgetting of the Holocaust.

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Niziolek's book prompts its readers to profoundly question and engage with the issue of agency, from an ethical as well as a theatrical standpoint ... This book provides a rich and highly thought-provoking reading experience.

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The book examines the impact of the Holocaust on Polish theatre from 1945 to the present. It reveals how for a society of 'witnesses', theatre in Poland facilitates both collective remembrance and forgetting of the Holocaust.

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Offers a radically new interpretation of the most important phenomena in Polish post-WWII theatre, especially the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor

Details ISBN1350039748 Author Claire Cochrane Pages 320 Series Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1350039748 ISBN-13 9781350039742 Format Paperback Imprint Methuen Drama DEWEY 809.29358405318 Translator Ursula Phillips UK Release Date 2020-12-24 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-12-24 Illustrations 47 bw illus Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2020-12-24 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-12-23 We've got this

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