Brotherly Hatred @ The Jewish Press
August 15th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
(Above) Arian Moayed and Daoud Heidami in Masked. Photograph by Aaron Epstein.
My column “Brotherly Hatred” is in this week’s Jewish Press. It covers “Masked” by Ilan Hatsor (translated by Michael Taub, directed by Ami Dayan):
If an Israeli settler and a Palestinian shopkeeper sat through Israeli playwright Ilan Hatsor’s Masked, both might feel betrayed and misrepresented. The Israeli would worry that the play portrays all Israelis as callous occupiers, who see helicopters, soldiers and tanks as the only solution to difficult problems. Meanwhile, the Palestinian could complain that the play presents Palestinians as selfish activists, who are so frustrated by Israeli occupation that they apply some Middle Eastern derivation of the law of the jungle: each man for himself, against brother and neighbor alike.