Open Wounds

Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914–2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies.Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striving to create a strong empathetic connection between the audience and Holocaust victims, or featured an unembellished documentary style. Tabori staked out a third position, beyond realism and documentation. The volume brings together the voices of international scholars to provide a comprehensive introduction to Tabori’s theater as well as in-depth analyses of his work, discussing all of his major plays. Individual essays address Tabori’s postdramatic theater in relation to sacrificial ritual, performance studies, and post-humanist approaches to the contemporary stage, as well as performance aspects of his productions, questions of ethics and aesthetics raised by his theater, and his plays’ relation to Holocaust representation in popular culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-02-14
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt468 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472132843

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ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMartin KagelI. Tabori Redux“Macht kein Theater”: George Tabori RevisitedAnat FeinbergII. PerformanceDigesting Tabori: On the Reception of a Jewish Playwright in ItalyLaura FortiMemory? No! Experience: Sacrificial Ritual in George Tabori’s TheatreAlice Le Trionnaire-BolterauerPerformance Illuminations: George Tabori and the Bildraum of the ShoahKlaus van den BergIII. Ethics and AestheticsParsing the Jewish Question: Ethical Witnessing, Tabori, and the TheatricalRepresentation of the HolocaustRebecca RovitFrom Tragedy to Farce: Tropes of Reappearance on the Stages of Historyand the TheatreFreddie RokemWho’s Afraid of Kommissar Rex? Postdramatic Ecology and the Theatreof the Holocaust in René Pollesch’s Cappuccetto RossoJack DavisIV. Holocaust Representation and Popular CultureOn the Legacy of the Performative Body: George Tabori and Robert SchindelJohanna ÖttlA Tale of Fruitful Failure: Urs Odermatt’s Film Adaptation of George Tabori’sMein Kampf as a Guide to Five Maxims of Tabori’s Holocaust TheatrePeter Höyng“Painted Laughter”: Cabaret, The People in the Picture, and the Paradoxof Holocaust MusicalsBarbara Wallace GrossmanContributorsIndex

“By situating Tabori critically within the ever-expanding landscape of what is called, for better or worse, ‘the theater of the Holocaust,’ this book offers a richer accounting of the genre’s history as well as thoughtful reflection on its current efficacy and future potential. The book fills a gap both in our understanding of Holocaust representation broadly conceived and in contemporary theater studies. It will be welcomed by scholars and students alike.”