TY - JOUR
T1 - Work and Play
T2 - Rolf Hochhuth's the Representative in Tel Aviv (1964)
AU - Abeliovich, Ruthie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2020.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - This paper probes into the 1964 Israeli performance of Rolf Hochhuth's controversial drama The Representative. Staged by Habima National Theatre under the direction of Avraham Ninio, the majority of the cast engaged in this production comprised European-born Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors. In its cultural context, the theatrical image of Jewish refugees dressed in Nazi uniforms or, conversely, staging visual, gestural or aural markers of Auschwitz prisoners imbued the drama with political meanings, triggering a debate about agency and forms of social and material participation in the aftermath of calamity. Examining the subterranean world of artists and craftsmen and women whose labour is deliberately obscured from view, I argue that the work of theatre emerges as a creative and generative energy that filters from the staged fiction into the 'real' world.
AB - This paper probes into the 1964 Israeli performance of Rolf Hochhuth's controversial drama The Representative. Staged by Habima National Theatre under the direction of Avraham Ninio, the majority of the cast engaged in this production comprised European-born Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors. In its cultural context, the theatrical image of Jewish refugees dressed in Nazi uniforms or, conversely, staging visual, gestural or aural markers of Auschwitz prisoners imbued the drama with political meanings, triggering a debate about agency and forms of social and material participation in the aftermath of calamity. Examining the subterranean world of artists and craftsmen and women whose labour is deliberately obscured from view, I argue that the work of theatre emerges as a creative and generative energy that filters from the staged fiction into the 'real' world.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0307883320000334
DO - 10.1017/S0307883320000334
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AN - SCOPUS:85095792556
SN - 0307-8833
VL - 45
SP - 326
EP - 331
JO - Theatre Research International
JF - Theatre Research International
IS - 3
ER -