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| Crossing
Jerusalem by
Julia Pascal
A Tricycle Theatre Production directed by Jack Gold |
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| Crossing
Jerusalem by
Julia Pascal
A Tricycle Theatre Production directed by Jack Gold |
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Pascal
intertwines the personal and the political and shows that the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be legitimately approached through
fiction as well as fact. Pascal very successfully breaks through the
stereotypical idea of a homogenised Israeli society. Even a simple
scene in which Varda's Russian Jewish husband and the Arab restaurateur
share a brief tipple reminds us of a blokish complicity that transcends
racial differences. By confining the action to a single day Pascal also
captures the pressure-cooker intensity of Israeli life and shows how
present actions are shaped by past guilts. |
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Julia Pascal's seething and
passionate new play ....cleverly puts before us something that is sadly
missing from the mental picture whenever this country is mentioned: a
portrait of ordinary Israelis. This is the most ambitious attempt to
illuminate the world's most intractable problem since David Hare's 'Via
Dolorosa'. Compelling.
The Jewish Chronicle |
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The play soars in its portrait
of familial dissension.... a brave and interesting play with some
moments of real comedy and despair Camden New Journal |
