Corpus: an intriguing play that plunges into the heart of the matter.
Photo, Andrew Alexander.
This is an intriguing play that makes a serious effort to work through the complex questions dealing with survivors of WWII death camps and all the associated issues of racism, anti-Semitism, survival guilt, as well as the working of abjection, oppression and domination that are not at all easy to flush out on stage. It is clear that author Darrah Teitel is a talented playwright who plunges headlong into the heart of the matter with much post structuralist theory in her bag. One does have the sense that she might have taken on too many issues at once but she still has succeeded, for the most part, in capturing the contemporary sense of what those past events mean to today’s younger generation.