In 2008, the Polish playwright Tadausz Slobodzanek wrote a play that dealt with the lessons we learn from historical events. He called it “Our class. History in 14 lessons”. The ten characters in the play embody real people who lived in the Polish city of Yadavna.
First bell, first day of school. Who doesn’t remember them? Excited and hopeful boys and girls tell about themselves, their parents and their dreams. This is how the shared story of their lives begins and this is how the play “In our class” begins. The ten characters in the play will become friends, they will rage, rival, reconcile, save each other, betray each other, love, envy and hate each other. Only one thing prevented them: to tear the invisible thread connecting their lives. As they themselves say: a classmate is like a family member. Director Natalya Kobliova: “In 2000, Y. T. Gross’s book “Neighbors” was published about the destruction of the Jewish community in the city of Yadavna. The book shocked Polish society and divided it into two camps: those who wanted to and those who did not want to admit their guilt. For the Poles, this is the history of their country, however There were also difficult moments in the history of Russia. Even today, sometimes we have to choose a side and take responsibility for our actions. When I was working on the play I asked myself: What would I have done? Characters in the play wonder: What could I have done? But this is not an answer. Wherever a person lives Under the conditions of a dictatorship, he ceases to be a man and becomes a wolf that sows destruction around him. A theater performance is the best way to learn lessons from history. The viewer sees in front of him human figures that reveal the entire lives of people and analyze the connection between the past, the present and the future.
“Tadowsz Slobodzanek is not a neutral historian. He is concerned with eternal human problems and he fights for the purity of the human soul. The play “Our Class” won the great Polish literature prize Nike. When the public figure and journalist Adam Michnik presented the prize to the playwright he said: As long as there is in Poland Such writers, I look towards the future with optimism.”
The show is in Russian with Hebrew subtitles
The director – Natalia Kovaleva
The designer is Alexander Borovsky
Composer – Claudia Terbarina
Poetry – Daria Shrebkova
The choreographer – Irina Filippova
Driven by his enormous love and passion for dance, theatre, and music, Yoel Peer, producer extraordinaire, is committed, for more than a decade, to bringing shows from abroad. Yoel and Bimot Productions has become the central, pivotal force in cultural show business in Israel by collaborating and initiating festivals, dance performance, musicals, and theatre.
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