A New Israeli Play About Refuseniks (now playing in NYC)

Until April 11. Salvaged from a locked thread... thanks Mina! :hi:

http://www.refuz.org.il/Documentation/newyorkplay.html

Theater's page for this play: http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/fist.htm

Straight to New York City from its acclaimed run at the Public Theatre of South Florida, THE FIST examines the thorny question of whether pacifists are traitors. Three generations of an Israeli family are thrown into turmoil when the son – a highly decorated army officer – refuses to report to his reserve unit under penalty of military trial and imprisonment. Entertainment News & Views called the play, "compelling drama" and said that it "evokes such passion you sometimes forget this is a play". The Jewish Journal said it is "a moving and searing play about a serious question being played out in Israel today."

Writer MISHA SHULMAN grew up in Jerusalem and came to New York City in 1999 after completing his military service in the Israeli army. Mr. Shulman is a writer, a performer and a teacher of Hebrew, Judaica and Drama. Previous plays include AVI’S DREAM (Gerard Bechar Auditorium, Jerusalem - 1995), HE WHO BROKE YOU (Kibbutz Lavi, Israel – 2001) and several of plays for young audiences at synagogues in and around New York. Mr. Shulman’s play, THE FIST has won both the Andrew and Eleanor McGlinchee Prize for a Play and the W. Eaton Award for Excellence in Playwriting.