“As Long As We Are Breathing review – unblocking the horrors of the Holocaust
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This innovative and timely play uses yoga, meditation and mindfulness to explore the experiences of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman”
We get “superflex yoga” and “communal mindfulness exercise” as part of a theatrical piece of “Holocaust education and remembrance and, in the week of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and at a time of alarmingly rising antisemitism,...”
It’s amusing to think that just as these American shows insist on depicting Russia like one big dilapidated “Dostoevskian” bed sit, they also dished up unfeasibly glamorous settings for out of work actors and waitresses in Friends and Big Bang Theory.
The Guardian surpasses itself in bourgeois affluent middle class recycling of the Holocaust:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/31/as-long-as-we-are-breathing-review-arcola-theatre-london
“As Long As We Are Breathing review – unblocking the horrors of the Holocaust
....
This innovative and timely play uses yoga, meditation and mindfulness to explore the experiences of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman”
We get “superflex yoga” and “communal mindfulness exercise” as part of a theatrical piece of “Holocaust education and remembrance and, in the week of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and at a time of alarmingly rising antisemitism,...”
Just so long as we don’t look OVER THERE!
It’s amusing to think that just as these American shows insist on depicting Russia like one big dilapidated “Dostoevskian” bed sit, they also dished up unfeasibly glamorous settings for out of work actors and waitresses in Friends and Big Bang Theory.