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Diedrich, Antje
Performance research, 03/2011, Letnik: 16, Številka: 1Journal Article
In 1978 Jewish-Hungarian director and playwright George Tabori created a performance with the elaborate title I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear: Improvisations on Shakespeare's Shylock. Based on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, the piece, produced by the Munich Kammerspiele, was performed in a former boiler room in a cellar by a cast of twelve actors and a musician. Tabori framed his adaptation as therapeutic memory-work, as a personal and collective attempt to come to terms with the trauma of the Holocaust in post-war (West) Germany.
