Description: This 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.
Brief description: Grzegorz Niziolek is professor at 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).
Review Quotes: "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