Leeds PlayhouseDavid Greig's play about a Warsaw orphanage shows glimpses of hope in the ghetto " but, inevitably, it falls short of capturing the horror of the Holocaust Philosopher Theodor Adorno famously claimed that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric". It's less well known that he later reassessed that statement, allowing that "suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream". …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM on February 3, 2020