Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust

Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust
Title Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Rovit
Publisher PAJ Publications
Pages 0
Release 2006-04
Genre
ISBN 9781555540753

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"Compelling and even poignant accounts of ghetto performances."--Ulrich Baer, German Studies Review

Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust

Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust
Title Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Rovit
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN

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How could Jews have created art and attended performances in the midst of the unspeakable adversity of the Holocaust? This volume collects critical essays, memoirs and primary source materials relating to the history of Jewish drama, cabaret, music and opera under the Third Reich.

Holocaust Theater

Holocaust Theater
Title Holocaust Theater PDF eBook
Author Gene A. Plunka
Publisher Routledge
Pages 302
Release 2017-12-22
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 135159608X

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Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics. Holocaust Theater addresses a selection of contemporary plays about the Holocaust, examining how collective and individual trauma is represented in dramatic texts, and considering the ways in which spectators might be swayed viscerally, intellectually, and emotionally by witnessing such representations onstage. Drawing on interviews with a number of the playwrights alongside psychoanalytic studies of survivor trauma, this volume seeks to foster understanding of the traumatic effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater’s capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma.

Open Wounds

Open Wounds
Title Open Wounds PDF eBook
Author Martin Kagel
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 209
Release 2022-02-14
Genre History
ISBN 0472132849

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Explores the irreverent theater of George Tabori and its enduring legacy within Holocaust theater

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin
Title The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Rovit
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Pages 304
Release 2012-09
Genre History
ISBN 1609381246

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"Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish Kulturbund Theatre. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime. Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity."--BACK COVER.

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor

The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor
Title The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor PDF eBook
Author Magda Romanska
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 420
Release 2014-10-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1783083212

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Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.

The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust

The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust
Title The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust PDF eBook
Author Grzegorz Niziolek
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 467
Release 2019-05-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1350039675

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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.