Theatre Making "Space for the Unassimilable"

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Twitchin, Mischa. 2025. Theatre Making "Space for the Unassimilable". Nordic Theatre Studies, 36(1), pp. 127-146. ISSN 0904-6380 [Article]

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Official URL: https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/article/view/153118

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Addressing the cultural politics of what Mihaela Mihai calls “mnemonic care”, this paper considers three questions concerning Jewish identity and testimonial justice that are posed in a recent play (including in its very title) by the Estonian-Russian theatre maker Julia Aug, Mum, is our cat also a Jew? The contrasting claims of and for official and unofficial national histories – both during and after the Soviet period – are explored here in terms of Mihai’s invitation for us to consider how such memory politics “make space for the unassimilable”.

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https://doi.org/10.7146/nts.v36i1.153118