Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2-2020
Abstract
As collaborators on the project Performing the Jewish Archive we worked with students in the US and in the UK to devise two separate peformances based on a script from the Terezín Ghetto (in German, Theresienstadt) titled Comedy about a Trap. By developing with them what we call ‘co-textual’ scenes, we engaged in a type of performance pedagogy that we hope will achieve lasting transformation: the students created and performed a relationship between the script, their new knowledge of the past and their own views in the present, leading to transformative insights regarding the lives of the prisoners and the need for action today.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Holocaust Studies
First Page
259
Last Page
281
Recommended Citation
Peschel, L., & Sikes, A. (2020). Pedagogy, performativity and ‘never again’: staging plays from the Terezín Ghetto. Holocaust Studies, 26 (2), 259-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2019.1578459