One space and various memories connected to it. A hotel room from the scene of a police investigation transforms into a film set, bears witness to an amorous relationship, a space in a ghetto in 1942 and a museum established by state authorities.  

What kind of memory is summoned up by objects that are a trace, a relic, or a “still life”? What do we, as individuals, do with memory when we appropriate and reproduce it? In Elsa Revcolevschi’s play, individual and collective memory shift between the public and the private, between what is hidden and what is imposed from above, between bad optics and the politically correct. The play was inspired by the writings of Rachela Auerbach, Imre Kertész. 

Elsa Revcolevschi is a French director of Polish-Jewish descent. She graduated from directorial studies at the state theatre school through the French National Theatre in Strasbourg (TNS). This is the only school in France with such a faculty. She is also a graduate of literary studies at the Université Paris X Nanterre. The artist was an assistant to Lorraine de Sagazan, among others, and also collaborated with Julien Gosslin. She will be the first foreign resident artist at the National Stary Theatre. 

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The co-producer of the play is Adam Mickiewicz Institute.