The Street Of Crocodiles

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Studio in 1991. Simon McBurney, Co-founder and Artistic Director of Theatre de Complicite, has served as the shows’ director since this time. Jacob Schulz, Bruno’s nephew, worked with the company as they developed the show. His relationship with the play remained ongoing through its’ continued growth until his death in 1997.
Jacob is credited as providing a bridge between the past and the present by McBurney and Wheatley in their notes on the script.

His input continued to illuminate not only the character of his uncle but also the world in which he wrote and lived. There is often a lyrical, often somewhat pastoral quality to much of Bruno Schulz’s writing. The external reality so closely associated with the subjects and settings of his work are widely regarded as bleak and burnished. The world he represents in his stories is not necessarily in keeping with the images often associated with Poland during his lifetime. Given this, the help offered by Jacob seems ...

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in an examination of the nature of recollection that in itself outshines any individual memory.

Here lies the challenge to the creators of the theatrical piece. Their task is to extend far beyond simply portraying the stories of Bruno Schulz in some way upon the stage. Simply adapting a selection of characters and settings from the collected stories would do little to bring the world inhabited by them to the audience. Beyond communicating the tone of the original text lay the mission to translate the literature into a theatrical language that would have as much impact visually as it did on the page. In keeping with the original style of the text, the presentation was to remain a ...

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