CREECA Lecture Series
"The Puzzle of the First Play on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Stefan Otwinowski's Easter," Halina Filipowicz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event Details
Date
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Time
4 p.m.
Location
206 Ingraham Hall
Description
This talk recovers a long forgotten play, Stefan Otwinowski’s Easter (Wielkanoc), and explores a tangled skein of its dramaturgical and rhetorical strategies. Drafted in 1943 and published by the Central Commission of Polish Jews in 1946, Easter is the earliest attempt in any language to depict the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw ghetto through the medium of drama. Every aspect of this play constitutes a puzzle awaiting patient investigation.
Cost
Free
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