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The aim of this article is to analyse the memory and post-memory threads that are present in the performance Transfer! 2006 by Jan Klata. The main subject matter of the performance are post-war resettlements of both Germans and Poles, that had been the result of changing borders within Europe, as agreed in Jalta and Potsdam. The spectacle has a form of fact theatre (including relations from witnesses) and engaged theatre (takes up the topic that is important for both societies, but has been ignored by the official narration and historical memory for a long time). The two parallel narrative threads create an ironic-bitter context. The first narration is based on the stories of history witnesses, who, as actors-amateurs, speak of their traumatic experience (both personal and taken from family stories) of resettlements. The second narration is led by professional actors, who play Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Using a grotesque convention, they “re-play” the Jalta scenes. An important part of the article is an analysis of the title term of “transfer” and its relation to both the subject of the play and the threads of memory and post-memory, mentioned above. |
