Our Class

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Our Class
A NEW PLAY BYTADEUSZ StOBODZIANEK IN A VERSION BY RYAN CRAIG
'A crowd was standing round laughing and joking as they watched us. I knew them all. They were our neighbours.'
A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, 1925. As the children grow up, their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then Nazi. Internal grievances deepen as fervent nationalism develops; friends betray each other; violence escalates. Until these ordinary people carry out an extraordinary and monstrous act that darkly resonates to this day.
Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek confronts his country's involvement in the atrocities of the last century and follows the one-time classmates - amidst the weddings, parades, births, deaths, emigrations and reconciliations - into the next.
The world premiere of Our Class was at the National... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Our Class
A NEW PLAY BYTADEUSZ StOBODZIANEK IN A VERSION BY RYAN CRAIG
'A crowd was standing round laughing and joking as they watched us. I knew them all. They were our neighbours.'
A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, 1925. As the children grow up, their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then Nazi. Internal grievances deepen as fervent nationalism develops; friends betray each other; violence escalates. Until these ordinary people carry out an extraordinary and monstrous act that darkly resonates to this day.
Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek confronts his country's involvement in the atrocities of the last century and follows the one-time classmates - amidst the weddings, parades, births, deaths, emigrations and reconciliations - into the next.
The world premiere of Our Class was at the National Theatre, London, in September 2009.
Ryan Craig's plays include What l/l/e Did to Weinstein (nominated Most Promising Playwright, Evening Standard Awards 2005), The Glass Room, Happy Savages and a translation of Zoltan Egressy's Portugal, all of which are published by Oberon Books. His play Broken Road was winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First in 2005.
Cover designed in-house at the National Theatre. (Photograph: Corbis) Vissza