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The Most Precious of Goods review " a stark fairytale set against the Holocaust by David Jays

Marylebone theatre, LondonSamantha Spiro conducts listeners urgently through this horrifying story of a baby thrown in desperation from an Auschwitz train If writing a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, as the philosopher Theodor Adorno famously said, how about a fairytale? Can the consoling archetypes of a simple story address the Shoah? That's the challenge in this evening drawn from a 2019 novella by Jean-Claude Gr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM on January 25, 2024

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