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A Hare's breadth
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Natasha Lehrer
Jerusalem Post
10-22-1998
As the lights came on after David Hare's performance of his play Via Dolorosa at London's Royal Court Theatre, I sat wiping my eyes. My emotion stemmed from the mixed feelings I have about Israel, where I used to live.
Hare, one of Britain's leading playwrights, was originally invited by London's Royal Court Theatre to participate in a trilogy of plays - one to be written by him, one by an Israeli and one by a Palestinian - to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the British Mandate. But the trilogy fell by the wayside and Hare ...
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