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The Museum on Stage. Auschwitz Tour by Elżbieta Depta
Witold Mrozek
w.mrozek@uw.edu.pl Author BiographyTheater critic, theater scholar, doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, and assistant at the Department of Stage Design and Lighting Design at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Member of the editorial board of the magazine Teatr.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5013-3280
University of Warsaw, Academy of Art in Szczecin
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 21 (2025), Pages: 368-374
Submission Date: 2025-05-06Publication Date: 2025-12-27
https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.1109
Abstract
This article reviews Elżbieta Depta’s play, Auschwitz Tour, performed at the Ludwik Solski Theater in Tarnów. The author analyzes the performance, which is inspired by guided tours of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. The author takes a comparative approach: she refers to Maria Kobielska’s concept of “devices for remembering” and Marvin Carlson’s “theater as a memory machine.” The performance attempts to combine a critical meta-narrative on commemoration and a didactic tool addressed by the theater at students of local schools.
Keywords
theater , Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum , Auschwitz Tour
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