Wall
From: Tuesday, 14th April 2009
To: Saturday, 25 April 2009
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Synopsis
"There it is. Not just a wall. A wall would be a fact. But this wall is a philosophy, what one observer has called a political code for shutting up shop." Since he first visited Israel and the Palestinian territories to write Via Dolorosa which the Royal Court presented over 200 times in the West End and on Broadway, David Hare has regularly been back in the region. Now he offers a searching 40-minute study of the Israel/Palestine separation barrier which will one day stretch 486 miles and be over four times as long as the Berlin Wall and in places, twice as high.
Our Review:
20 April 2009
David Hare’s Wall, which he’s delivering on the Royal Court’s main stage after The Fever each night for one more week (great pairing!) - before he takes it to New York with its brilliant companion piece, Berlin - is a cry of frustration and despair about the current state of the State of Israel.
And it’s a well-meaning, impartial cry of despair, too, focussing on the farcical disaster of the expensive fence that Israel is building - despite the denunciation of the United Nations - to keep the Arabs out while Hamas is firing Qatam rockets over the construction, rendering it useless anyway.
As the novelist David Grossman tells Hare, at the end of his forty minute stand-up performance, the country has become so addicted to the occupation on the West Bank, people have handed their future to the security people; survival is the name of the game.
Hare looks as though he’s been goaded, wound up into a condition of crackl...
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David Hare (Author)
Stephen Daldry (Director)
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