The play follows a group of ten Polish classmates, five Jewish and five Catholic, from the time in Poland in the 1920s when they grew up as friends and neighbours, through the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, to the post-war period, when some of their old friendships are smashed.
Based on an English adaptation by Norman Allen, the production is directed by Ukrainian-born Igor Golyaka, with sets by Jan Pappelbaum and incidental music by Anna Drubich.
The production runs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music until February 4.
Our Class has had more than 60 productions across the world since its premiere in 2009, including in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Spain, Italy, Japan, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Israel, and most recently South Korea, where it won four awards at the Korean Theatre Festival in Seoul in June 2023.
Born in 1955, Słobodzianek is a highly-acclaimed playwright, director and theatre critic. In 2012-2022 he served as the artistic director of Warsaw’s Dramatyczny Theatre.
Two of his early plays, Turlajgroszek (Roll-a-Pea) and Merlin won the Fringe Awards at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993 and 1994.
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