Clark Young and Derek Goldman's Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski opens its New York premiere September 15. Theatre for a New Audience presents the solo performance at Off-Broadway's Polonsky Shakespeare Center, where the show began previews September 10 and will run through October 9.
Oscar nominee David Strathairn (Nomadland, Nightmare Alley) portrays Karski, a Polish resistance fighter, World War II hero, and Holocaust witness in the solo show.
Karski volunteered to walk from the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland before bringing news of the horrors to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the Allied Nations in London as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States. His reports, however, were received with skepticism and denial.
Remember This marks Strathairn's TFANA debut.
TFANA Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz said in an earlier statement, “Theatre for a New Audience is a modern classical theatre whose cornerstone is Shakespeare. What is this play doing in a season at TFANA? The answer lies in the question ‘what is a classic?’ To me, it’s a story that is never over. It keeps getting retold because the issues that the classic plays are addressing are never over. Every generation has to deal with them.”
Goldman directs Remember This, which he developed at The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. Karski earned his doctorate and taught at Georgetown for four decades following the war, and Goldman worked with Young on crafting a script almost entirely from Karski's words, informed by Karski's former students and colleagues. Remember This premiered in 2019 at Georgetown, and then played runs in London, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
The creative team features scenic designer Misha Kachman, lighting designer Zach Blane, composer and sound designer Roc Lee, costume designer Ivania Stack, and movement director Emma Jaster.
For tickets and more information, visit TFANA.org.
Jeffrey Horowitz
Derek Goldman, David Strathairn, Jeffrey Horowitz, and Clark Young
Derek Goldman, Clark Young, Adrian Kubicki, and David Strathairn
Derek Goldman, Adrian Kubicki, and David Strathairn
David Strathairn
David Strathairn and Jeffrey Horowitz
David Strathairn, Derek Goldman, and Adrian Kubicki
Clark Young, David Strathairn, and Derek Goldman
