The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust av Grzegorz Niziolek

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Grzegorz Niziolek''s <i>The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust</i> 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 <i>Poor Theatre</i> and Kantor''s <i>Theatre of Death - </i>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. <br/><br/><br/>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 e