Jewish group sponsors Montreal showing for Churchill's Gaza play

Photograph: Tristram Kenton

On Sunday, May 3, Independent Jewish Voices Montreal (IJVM) is organizing the Canadian premiere of the play. It will be read in both English and French and followed by a discussion that organizers hope will help to initiate dialogue between the communities affected in Montreal.

“This play is likely to spark conversation,” says director Rose Plotek, on the phone from Toronto. The piece provoked a flurry of response when it was staged at the Royal Court in London less than three weeks after Israel pulled out of Gaza. Comments ranged from predictable charges of anti-Semitism in the New Atlantic to ardent praise from figures like American playwright Tony Kushner.

But Plotek insists the play is kosher. “It’s about the human struggle of parents struggling with how to communicate violence to children, how communication passes from generation to generation,” she says.

SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN AT THE
GEORDIE SPACE (4001 BERRI, SUITE
103) ON SUNDAY, MAY 3, 3 P.M. AND 6
P.M. . RESERVATIONS:
IJVM.VJIM@GMAIL.COM. THE COMPLETE
SCRIPT CAN BE DOWNLOADED
AT ROYALCOURTTHEATRE.COM

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Caryl Churchill's play is anti-war not anti-semitic