Abstract
Performing History examines theatre's relationship to the historical past. Specifically, it investigates the relationship of a dozen theatre productions—all but one staged after World War II and in a variety of sites in the US, Western Europe, and Israel—to the French Revolution and Shoah. Plays by Georg Büchner, Yukio Mishima, Peter Weiss, Yehoshua Sobol, and Hanoch Levin are considered, as are productions by Orson Welles, Robert Wilson, Ingmar Bergman, Dudu Ma'ayan, Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine, Herbert Blau, and others. What Freddie Rokem attempts here is audacious: to describe and theorize the way theatre functions as a mode of historical understanding. What he attempts is also quite courageous; his book opens theatre studies onto highly troubling critical and ethical vistas.
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