Słobdzianek’s Our Class Awarded in Israel
Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class has been presented with the Israeli Theatre Prize for best foreign play. Director Hanan Snir and choreographer Miri Azar were also awarded.
Our Class was co-produced by two theatres: Cameri and Habima. The play that had its premiere in February 2014 was translated from Polish by Anat Zajdman. Our class was well-received by the audience and has been shown over 200 times so far. Now it has been presented with the Israeli Theatre Prize, an important and prestigious yearly prize awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
Our Class tells the story of the Polish and Jewish students of a pre-war school in a small town. The consecutive “lessons” tell their harrowing life stories, full of hate, death and revenge. The community of students falls apart and yet at the same time bonded together by the memory of evil.
The play was originally written by Tadeusz Słobodzianek, Polish playwright, director and director of the Gustaw Holoubek Theatre in Warsaw. It was awarded the Nike Literary Award in 2010.
Our Class is currently the most frequently staged Polish theatrical performance in the world. It has been staged in Canada, the USA, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Japan, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden and Hungary. The Polish premiere took place in 2010 in the Gustaw Holoubek Theatre in Warsaw, directed by Ondrej Spisak, who was later awarded the Warsaw Felix Award 2011. The Hungarian staging was presented with the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award, the one in Stockholm was called the most important performance of the year by the Dagens Nyheter journal and the Tokyo staging was awarded the Yomuri Great National Theatre prize for the best theatrical performance of 2013.
Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s (born 1955) literary debut was child’s play Historia o żebraku i osiołku [The story of a beggar and a donkey]. His dramatic works include: Car Mikołaj [Tsar Nikolai], Prorok Ilja [Ilja the prophet], Merlin. Inna historia [Merlin, a different story].
Source: PAP; edit EB
Translated by Paweł Trzaskowski, 26 June 2015.
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