It has a head of drama, Martin Fredman, who has “written many plays, particularly for young audiences”, which is now being put on at Edinburgh. This is the poster:
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In a piece which the programme notes tell us is “informed by his Jewish background and his experiences in both Israel and on the West Bank”, the Cambridge-based playwright unleashes in the holy land and the West Bank Paul Brendan’s philosemitic, prattishly-attired Christian Sunday school teacher Michael Crossley.
Michael is an idealist, who sets off to film the Jews, “an incredible people”. But wait a second: maybe they’re not, after all. For up pops Chandrika Chevli’s Izzy, a member of the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement, which monitors Israeli settlements, and a Jew to boot, who tells him that what matters is “justice for the indigenous population. It’s about standing up against oppression”.
