"This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a "Holocaust performative, ..".. The author] asks what a "holocaust performative" might look like and how such a study might illuminate "events of this particular genocide that are unrepresentable and outside the parameters of representation itself..".. Patraka] contributes an important and possibly contentious dimension to Holocaust studies." -James Young

"Theater, always a medium of fragile bodies and intractable ideologies, meets its biggest challenge in the Holocaust. How represent the unrepresentable? Vivian...