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The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, April 2
11:30am Friday 4th April 2008
Through television, images of the Palestinian war - the shelling and the suicide bombings - are seen by us regularly. Less familiar are the everyday lives of the people wanting to live in peace.
This production seeks to redress that imbalance through a series of monologues, based on conversations playwright Robin Soans had with folk he met in the Middle East.
His characters - Israelis and Palestinians - talk to the audience about how they cope with the violence, whilst preparing their meals.
There is defiance from a wife determined to stay on and not go back to America after the death of her husband; grief from a mother after the loss of a child, and justification of why a girl becomes a suicide bomber.
The play was beautifully acted throughout, with Sascha Harman particularly moving as an Arab girl with an arm paralysed by a stray bullet.
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