"Our Class", a highly successful and internationally acclaimed play by Polish playwright Tadeusz Słobodzianek, is about to premiere in Los Angeles, Chicago and Pittsburgh in an English translation by Ryan Craig. The first play to receive Poland's top literary prize, the Nike, in 2010, Our Class tackles the massacre of Jews in the small Polish town of Jedwabne during World War II. The characters are Poles and Jews who used to be classmates before the war. During 14 "lessons," viewers learn about their dramatic lives over a span of almost 80 years. At the beginning, the girls and boys sing and play together. Adulthood puts an end to the harmony and then World War II begins and the town is invaded first by the Soviet Army and then by Nazi troops. Anti-Semitism breaks out and escalates in a succession of rapes, murders and tortures. The atrocities reach a tragic climax when almost all local Jews are burned alive in a barn or killed in the town square. Survivors are few and the viole
Tytuł oryginalny
Our Class in the United States
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Materiał nadesłany
The Warsaw Voice nr 5
Data:
01.05.2013