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The Truth Lurks in the Details

Summary/Abstract: A review of two plays based on Svietlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster: Czernobyl. Last minute, directed by Agnieszka Korytkowska-Mazur (the Dramatyczny Theatre in Białystok, prem: 2 III 2013) and Chernobyl Prayer, directed by Joanna Szczepkowska (the Studio Theatre in Warsaw, prem: 8 III 2013). The author notes that at the heart of both plays lies the conviction that the most vital motif in Alexevich’s reportage “arises from the reciprocal relationship between stage and audience”. Nevertheless, in Tomaszewska’s view, only the creators of the Warsaw play successfully became “advocates for the forgotten, marginalized victims”. The audience at the Czernobyl. Last minute production easily maintained a safe distance from the onstage events, because, in the final reckoning, these events were of no concern to them.

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