Cottesloe, London1,600 Jews were massacred in the small Polish town of Jedwabne in the summer of 1941. Such is the starting-point for this play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek which follows recent research by attributing the slaughter not to the occupying Nazis but to the local community. And, if the second half of this three-hour play were as riveting as the first, it would be masterly rather than very good.The format is de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM on September 23, 2009