"'Remember This' serves as a remarkable showcase for Strathairn, who moves fluidly among characters and time periods."
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"The play is on surer ground when engaging with Karski on a human scale, and Strathairn is exceptionally able to breathe electricity into it."
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"'Remember This' immerses us much more powerfully in the experience of Karski himself. The culminating scenes are particularly sobering."
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"In all the intellectualizing of Jewish history, it's become rarer to see something like 'Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski' — a plain testimonial that does not ask you to ponder different angles of an argument or gently consider the other side of an 'if' statement."
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Remember This is a vital slice of history, delivered by an extremely accomplished actor…but, just as Karski admits repressing his emotions to keep going, it's hard to not do the same. Before one can take in any of the script's atrocities, it is replaced by something worse, causing one to feel overwhelmed. The climax, detailing with brutal honesty the futility of Karski's mission, offers no relief; a kind of epilogue, tracing his academic career and marriage, also ends in tragedy. This is a story that must be told, but I'm not convinced that this is the ideal format.
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"In this moving, immersive tribute to one man’s efforts to expose the truth, Karski’s adjurations live on. His message does not age: that we must listen and act in the presence of inhumanity and unimaginable evil."
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"So, it follows that we live in a world where a theater piece about the immeasurable damage resistance to truth can cause acquires an especially powerful meaning."
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Aside from his ability to create multiple characters with his voice and body language, Strathairn’s physicality is remarkable in aging from a young man to a senior citizen before our eyes as well as using the table for enacting various events such as jumping off of a train or Karski’s torture by the Nazis. (The masterly movement director is Emma Jaster.) In the brief 90 minutes of playing time, Strathairn is able to establish a quietly heroic man’s entire life and career with modesty, sincerity and simplicity. It is not only a remarkable performance, it is also an impressive reconstruction of another man’s character and deeds.
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