Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,2 (1994) 57-87
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the theater
Abstract:
States that theater may be the most vulnerable and useful art form for locating the crises artists face as interpreters of the Holocaust experience. Examines five English-language plays about the Nazi perpetrators, written over the last decade, which raise the issue of the intractable tension between historians and artists and their audiences in the postmodern world. The plays are Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of George Steiner's "The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.", Donald Freed's "The White Crow: Eichmann in Jerusalem", Romulus Linney's "2" (about Hermann Göring), Charlie Schulman's "Angel of Death" (about Josef Mengele), and Howard Brenton's "H.I.D. (Hess is Dead)". Refers frequently to essays in the collection "Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the 'Final Solution'" (1992). Contends that stage Nazis carry with them a host of problems in their presentation, one of which is to bring to life the rhetoric of genocide in an environment of unsureness, commercial rapacity, cultural confusion, and historical ignorance.
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