History in 14 lessons

How I on Hamlet (with Danila Kozlovsky) went to Petersburg

The agencies write that the performance was simply postponed. You should have seen the audience who gathered in front of the theater. Their faces. Long explanations with administrators. The woman, almost crying, said that she arrived with her husband from afar. Specially. And all the time she repeated: "What to do now?" “Try it in May,” the administrator exhorted her. “Do you know how much the road cost us? We attached our short vacation to this performance. Do you think they will not be canceled in May? " "I don't know". And even before the entrance stood a completely killed deputy director of the theater and "apologized to the audience." They say that they themselves learned about the transfer of the performance in a couple of hours. It was a pity to leave. And I went to look at the chamber scene “Our class. History in the XIV lessons »Tadeusz Slobojannik. The performance is a long -standing, but it seems a torn shred of meat with blood from today, although the directing of Natalia Kolotova is delicate, minimalistic. The true heartbreaking story of the transformation of ordinary people is into animals. The story of genocide without the participation of the Nazis.

Heroes are graduates of a school from a tapped town of Nosvabne, as if descended from black and white photography. They are classmates in class and did not share Jews in the Poles and Jews. Folded, quarreled, fooling around.

Then the Red Army entered Poland, then the Germans, then social. Poland. And in these zigzags of the great story, classmates turned first into panties, then into brutal non-humans-guessmen, capable of raping their home-graders, kill.

"And this is my whole life?" - asks Dora, burned in the barn with his "boys", clutching a newborn to the chest. But those who survived did not live. There are no survivors in such a massacre. The most curious is the process of transformation, self -justification of punishers, spelled out in detail. The audience cried and applauded. Very, very long. Yes, Slobodzyank did not invent anything. The history of the heroes, the heroes have real prototypes, in 2001 President Kvasinevsky in barely uttered repentant words on behalf of the Poles in front of the Jews. But I remember perfectly how indignation in Poland met the Oscar -winning “Idu” Pavel Pavlikovsky, who was accused of slander, distorting history. By the way, the film was released in the same year when a performance on the play of Slobojank appeared in the Dodin Theater. Such rhymes and coincidences.