(The following article appeared in The Nation, March 26, 2009.  View Seven Jewish Children via YouTube links below.)

'Tell Her the Truth'

By Tony Kushner & Alisa Solomon

Israel's recent bombing and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, Operation Cast Lead, killed 1,417 Palestinians; thirteen Israelis were killed, five by friendly fire. Thousands of Palestinians were seriously wounded and left without adequate medical care, shelter or food. Among the Palestinian dead, more than 400 were children. In response to this devastation, Caryl Churchill wrote a play.

Churchill is one of the most important and influential playwrights living, the author of formally inventive, psychologically searing, politically and intellectually complex dramas, including Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Mad Forest and Far Away. To this body of work she's now added the very brief (six pages, ten minutes long in performance) and very controversial Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza. The play ran for two weeks in February at London's Royal Court Theatre and is being presented across the United States in cities such as New York (Theaters Against War and New York Theatre Workshop), Chicago (Rooms Productions), Washington (Theater J and Forum Theatre), Cambridge, Massachusetts (Cambridge Palestine Forum) and Los Angeles (Rude Guerrilla) . . .

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/kushner_solomon

Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill  

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBA30Ax51s

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3iASkzQkg&feature=related