„Pożydki”
Use the Jews

Summary/Abstract: Iwona Kurz reviews the play March ’68: Living Well Is the Sweetest Revenge by Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski (the Jewish Theater in Warsaw, premiere: 14.05.2016). The author notes that the space, which recalls part of a great props room, could symbolize the dark corners of the Polish imagination. She also perceives the specificity of the community in the performance – situated between heaven and purgatory. The clear division between Poles and Jews here is a basis for articulating fear of the other on stage. Kurz takes a critical view of Demirski’s moralizing text, which reduces language to catchphrases and slick bon mots, while abandoning humor, which had been the strength of his work to date. Moreover, the reviewer believes that any discussion on Polish antisemitism is rendered futile in the context the artists create.

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