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January 2, 2024
Director Igor Golyak, founder of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theater, was born in Ukraine. Understandably, themes of displacement and war are often woven throughout his work.
Now Golyak is embarking on a play recounting horrific real-life events: the massacre of 1600 Jews in a small Polish town in the summer of 1941. Titled, “Our Class,” it follows 10 Polish classmates — five Jewish and five Catholic —who grow up as friends and neighbors. But they turn on one another with life-and-death consequences. It’s a story with deep resonance today,
From there, It’s telly time and an anglophile’s…
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