THE REVISIONIST explores Australia’s understanding of the Holocaust through what became known as the “Demidenko Affair,” when a young Australian woman of Anglo Saxon background was able to convince the literary and cultural establishment that her father and uncle were Ukrainians involved in the mass slaughter of Jews during the war, and felt quite justified in doing so. The play looks at the manipulation of collective memory through the rewriting or falsification of history, as was clearly demonstrated with the acceptance and critical acclaim given to Demidenko whose real identity was Helen Darville and her family history a complete fabrication.