The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust

by Grzegorz Nizioek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350039748
• ISBN13: 9781350039742
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 320 Pages