10/14/2022
What a story? And what a performance? I picked up a last minute ticket yesterday, front and centre, for last nights performance of ‘Remember this: The Lesson of Jan Karski’. David Strathairn, alone on stage save a few chairs and a table, held our attention for ninety minutes while we silently observed his retelling of Jan Karski’s story. By twist of fate, and in large part thanks to his photographic memory and facility for languages, Karski bore witness to the atrocities of the Third Reich and later relayed these memories to disbelieving leaders in the west. To this day, we find it hard to comprehend, many among us preferring to believe this period to be an anomaly, an abomination. But the writers, director and Strathairn feel there is much we can learn from Karaki’s lesson today. Inspirational and emotionally draining in equal measure, this is a story that needs to be told.
