We are in the ephemeral “Museum of the Romanian Holocaust”, where we will talk about the history of the Romanian Holocaust from the perspective of Karol Koperfyngel (the main character of the novel The Cremator by the Czech writer Ladislav Fuks), and then from the post-war point of view of Mihail Sebastian and Mircea Eliade and their meeting that never happened.
Crematory should have premiered in June 2020 at the Theatre of Youth in Piatra Neamț. This is the last part of the “Triptych on violence”, which I have created with my colleagues.
Through Crematory we want to ask a question about something more universal – about the extermination machine, and how people are ready to condemn the “other”.
Jakub Skrzywanek
Director, writer, and creator of performative installations and, since 2021, programme curator of the Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin.
His most acclaimed productions are part of the “Triptych on Violence” prepared in 2019 as part of the Anti-Fascist Year. This opened with the play Mein Kampf, at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw, which provided the first opportunity to challenge Adolf Hitler’s book on stage, and to ask why – after the experience of the Second World War – fascism and national socialism have resurfaced as attractive ideologies, with nationalist banners and slogans rapidly replacing pride in a multicultural, diverse, united Europe?
A performance in Polish with subtitles in Romanian.
The showing will be followed by a discussion with the audience.