A new play called “Jews. In Their Own Words.” examines left-wing prejudice at large, the lineage of anti-Semitic slurs and the way they seeped into the ether
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask“Rare Earth Mettle”, which opened in November, featured a megalomaniac tycoon whose name, before an outcry, was to be Hershel Fink. The character wasn’t Jewish, but the name clearly was. For Jews, the context sharpened the sting of this old, defamatory link to rapacious wealth.
Vicky Featherstone, the artistic director, says she and Tracy-Ann Oberman, an actor and vocal opponent of anti-Semitism, had already discussed doing a play about its rise on the left. The scandal sped up their plan. The result, on now, is “Jews. In Their Own Words.” The text is by Jonathan Freedland, an eminent left-leaning Jewish journalist, who was persuaded that the theatre was “all in”. It weaves together interviews with a dozen British Jews, including Ms Oberman, politicians, writers, a social worker and a painter-decorator . It mentions another furore at the Royal Court, over “Seven Jewish Children”, put on in 2009.
Little things are connected to big things; that is part of the message. An affront at the house theatre of the British left drew on age-old slurs that have contributed to awful suffering and, yes, even to the Holocaust, which looms at the edge of these stories and lives. Not everyone wants to hear that warning. Ms Featherstone says the theatre is receiving the sort of anti-Semitic abuse and trolling that some of the characters describe . But the play makes another, hopeful point too.
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