The Coat of Arms

The last members of the Groisglik clan, caught in a past of which they have in fact been dispossessed, find themselves thrown onto the rubbish heap of History; they live on memories and are gripped by a dark melancholy. The instinct for survival and the wish to return to the world they were pushed out of set off a sharp, dehumanising conflict between the older and the newer members of the family. The production is a tribute to human sensibility and a subtle demonstration of a paradox: choices that look right and then turn out to be fatal mistakes. A Jewish play, in essence, in the Chekhovian vein...