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Signy Lynch
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Theatre nerd, she/her | Contemporary intercultural, intermedial, diasporic & Black theatres in Canada; audience research; theatre criticism | Asst Prof at UofT (Mississauga and CDTPS)
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Jewish-Canadian playwright Jason Sherman's 1996 play Reading Hebron, about the 1994 Hebron Massacre of Palestinians, is depressingly timely in its foregrounding of Western wilful ignorance re: Israel's ethnonationalist violence, incl. these quotes from characters Noam Chomsky & Yeshayahu Leibowitz:
Nathan: Listen up, Noam. How is this country diff-- Chomsky: Yes. I uh, I heard the question. I thought I told you once, but uhh all right. Israel is different because no other country is permitted to commit such terrible rights abuses and at the same time is revered as a paragon of moral rectitude. Leibowitz: Israel is going through a Nazification process. The problem we face is that there are many people who are enamoured of being Jewish, of their Jewishness--but for them this has no connection with Judaism. So this becomes a nationalism that quickly falls into idolatry and self-deception. Israel is not a state of Judaism--it is simply a secular state whose problems have nothing to do with Judaism.
November 30, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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What a week to have assigned my Canadian Theatre History class a play about the threat of fascism and the importance of art in dark times. (Tinka's New Dress by Ronnie Burkett)
Line from a play script. Tinka: It's bad enough to do mere entertainment that says nothing and call it art. But it's worse, I think, to do work that says the wrong things and call it truth.
November 8, 2024 at 3:54 AM