{"id":39169,"date":"2022-07-22T01:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=39169"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:50:38","slug":"play-tackles-israeli-palestinian-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/07\/22\/play-tackles-israeli-palestinian-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Play tackles Israeli\/Palestinian conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue (photo from Bema Productions)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bema Productions, directed by Zelda Dean, is bringing the play Peace Talks to the Victoria Fringe Festival, Aug. 25-Sept. 4. Performances will take place at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue\u2019s Black Box Theatre, 1461 Blanshard St., pictured above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written and performed by Izzy Salant and Ryan Dunn, this run will be a world premi\u00e8re of the work that saw a virtual staged reading in early 2021. Since that time, the playwrights continued to develop their play and raise the necessary funds to meet their goal of touring the show to university and college campuses in both Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peace Talks addresses the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict. Noam watches helplessly as his best friend Andrew dies in an explosion right in front of him in a hookah bar in Israel. Noam believes he was responsible. After the catastrophe, Andrew\u2019s bereaved American brother James sets out on a revenge plot against Israel and against Noam, as he also believes Noam is responsible for Andrew\u2019s death. He puts his plan into action, actively sabotaging Israeli advocacy and promoting anti-Zionism to anyone who will listen, ultimately attempting to attain his true goal: to kill Noam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James and Noam find themselves in a bitter internal and external struggle with Israel, Zionism, death, human rights, and Andrew\u2019s memory. As they clash, they both discover some harsh realities of the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict and that it is a world that isn\u2019t as clear-cut as they thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For tickets to Peace Talks, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/victoriafringe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victoriafringe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Bema Productions<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue (photo from Bema Productions) Bema Productions, directed by Zelda Dean, is bringing the play Peace Talks to the Victoria Fringe Festival, Aug. 25-Sept. 4. Performances will take place at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue\u2019s Black Box Theatre, 1461 Blanshard St., pictured above. Written and performed by Izzy Salant and Ryan Dunn, this run will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[7428,1332,1242,1673,2721,1774],"class_list":["post-39169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performing-arts","tag-bema-productions","tag-emanu-el","tag-fringe-festival","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-peace","tag-terrorism"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}