Primo [B]

This is a very good show. It's interesting, informative, and entertaining. For better or for worse, I learned a great deal about day to day life at Auschwitz. Anthony Sher is very good at expressing the nuanced feelings/thoughts of Primo Levy.

Surprisingly, I did not find this an emotionally moving play. It was quite thought-provoking, and pretty upsetting, but it (intentionally I think) does not have heavy emotional impact. It is a rational, thoughtful presentation of the daily horrors that occurred at Auschwitz. Not until the last few lines when Sher described the humiliation felt by one of the Russian liberators did I feel any emotional impact.