A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre—in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer—as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of Palestinians.
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1996, Factory Theatre, Toronto
1997
Playwrights Canada Press
9781770912359
Here is an archive.org link for the play: https://archive.org/details/readinghebron0000sher/mode/2up. It includes notes on the set and props in addition to the play itself.
Here is an archive.org link for the play: https://archive.org/details/readinghebron0000sher/mode/2up. It includes notes on the set and props in addition to the play itself.
Stylized
Peddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting, spending, killing and dying in a world where getting is hard and killing is commonplace are threads woven into this 1980's installment in the author's renowned cycle of plays about the black experience in America.
Stylized
It takes place in The Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1977, in a gypsy cab station, during Pittsburgh’s period of so-called “urban renewal.” As the city tries to shut down businesses -- including the cab station -- to make way for new building, we meet five gypsy cab drivers struggling to survive.
