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‘I Suggest a Night at the Theatre, Mr.Cameron’: Memory, History and Responsibility in Our Class (Nasza Klasa, 2009)

In November 2010, journalist David Aaronovitch addressed the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, in The Times. ‘This is the kind of advice I Ioathe,’ he wrote, ‘but I'll say it anyway. Go to see Our Class, Mr. C. This is one hole you don't want to keep digging’. In this article I will consider: the political circumstances surrounding the world premiere of Tadeusz Sobodzianek's play at London's National Theatre; the significance of its performance outside the playwright's own country; and the ways in which both the translated text and the performance engage formally and aesthetically with key themes within Holocaust representation, namely, memory, history and responsibility. I will also explore how Mr. Cameron – as Aaronovitch expressed it – ‘came to be in the position of demanding that a foreign secretary, descended from Polish Jews, should apologise far possibly offending the sensibilities of a foreign politician who vehemently opposed there being an apology for the massacre of Polish Jews’.